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From: wnp@dcs.UUCP (Wolf N. Paul)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport
Subject: Re: Where can I find ksh/286
Summary: MKS Trilogy is 286, not 386
Keywords: ksh, uPort 286/AT
Message-ID: <141@dcs.UUCP>
Date: 12 Jul 88 12:49:52 GMT
References: <4700@killer.UUCP> <87@obie.UUCP> <10075@lll-winken.llnl.gov>
Reply-To: wnp@dcs.UUCP (Wolf N. Paul)
Organization: DCS, Dallas, Texas
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In article <10075@lll-winken.llnl.gov> bowles@lll-crg.llnl.gov.UUCP (Jeff Bowles) writes:
>In article <87@obie.UUCP> wes@obie.UUCP (Barnacle Wes) writes:
>>In article <4700@killer.UUCP>, toma@killer.UUCP (Tom Armistead) writes:
>>> 	Where can I get ksh for uPort 286/AT? A phone number or mailing
>>Mortice Kern Systems sells their "MKS Trilogy" for System V/AT for $119.
>I am a little familiar with one of MKS's products --- they sell an MS-DOS
>toolkit that includes the three things about, in addition to the wealth
>of Unix tools you would normally use to write shell scripts:
>If the '386 tools are anywhere close, it's worth spending the $119 to
>get a copy to evaluate.

1. The MKS Trilogy, last I looked at their ads, was for System V/AT, which is
   the '286 product, rather than the '386.

2. I have a beta version of the MKS Trilogy (I sent in my bug reports but never
   got a reply or acknowledgement, so I'm a bit miffed) -- their ksh is larger
   than the ksh on uport's BBS, loads MUCH SLOWER, and burps on some of the
   Bourne scripts in /bin (i.e. basename). I don't know whether these things got
   fixed since they never acknowledged my bug reports.

3. What version of the toolkit are you using on your network? Supposedly
   Release 2.3 (out about 1 1/2 months) fixed network problems.

Wolf Paul
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