Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!rutgers!cmcl2!brl-adm!umd5!ames!lll-tis!lll-winken!abhg!carpet!bill From: bill@carpet.WLK.COM (Bill Kennedy) Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport Subject: Re: Ksh Documentation Message-ID: <77@carpet.WLK.COM> Date: 2 Jun 88 19:57:26 GMT References: <177@focsys.UUCP> Reply-To: bill@ssbn.WLK.COM (Bill Kennedy) Followup-To: comp.unix.microport Distribution: na Organization: W.L. Kennedy Jr. and Associates Lines: 33 In article <177@focsys.UUCP> larry@focsys.UUCP (Larry Williamson) writes: >I've obtained the korn shell from microport's bbs and I love it. Me too! And I paid for mine from Aspen in NJ :-) Couldn't be without it. [ documentation remarks deleted... ] >to spend the long distance call to california to get microport's ksh). > >Where can I get documentation on ksh? It's another LD call to CA but if you call Computer Literacy book store in San Jose, they have a quick reference in a spiral binding that's good for just that. Also there is a book that they have, I think the title is UNIX Shell Programming by Kochan & Wood that has a chapter or so devoted to it. (408) 435-1118 The people where I got mine (one each for V/AT and Xenix 386) encloses a rather complete tutorial text and manual pages for ksh. Since they get over $100 (I forget at the moment) for the ksh binary, I am not sure they'd just sell you the book. Their name is Aspen something or other (there's also an Aspen in Colorado who sells curses, that's why I'm fuzzy) and they are in NJ. They advertise regularly in UNIX/World and UNIX Review or try area code 201 directory assistance for Parsippany. For me there are two big wins with ksh. It does everything that csh (on a non-BSD system) can do as well as sh (csh doesn't seem to like to unshar things). If you have to run both DOS and UNIX it's very valuable to have the same command interpreter and syntax. Some of the other features (improved arithmetic capability, command line editing) are a real pleasure but the uniform command interface is invaluable. -- Bill Kennedy Internet: bill@ssbn.WLK.COM Usenet: { killer | att-cb | ihnp4!tness7 }!ssbn!bill