Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!lll-tis!lll-winken!lll-crg.llnl.gov!bowles From: bowles@lll-crg.llnl.gov (Jeff Bowles) Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport Subject: Re: Where can I find ksh/286 Keywords: ksh, uPort 286/AT Message-ID: <10075@lll-winken.llnl.gov> Date: 11 Jul 88 13:56:24 GMT References: <4700@killer.UUCP> <87@obie.UUCP> Sender: usenet@lll-winken.llnl.gov Reply-To: bowles@lll-crg.llnl.gov.UUCP (Jeff Bowles) Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Lines: 25 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 >> address or something??? > >Mortice Kern Systems sells their "MKS Trilogy" for System V/AT for $119. >It includes the ksh, MKS awk, and MKS crypt, which supports both DES and >the Enigma rotor machine algorithms. They accept AmEx, M/C, and Visa. >+1 800 265 2797. 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: sort/comm/uniq/grep/cut/paste/... Although my network disk doesn't entirely like the ksh sometimes, I find that MKS's toolkit makes my life (and more, the life of a coworker stuck on MS-DOS) much easier. Plus, their price is very good. If the '386 tools are anywhere close, it's worth spending the $119 to get a copy to evaluate. Jeff Bowles ps. I'll gladly send a longer, more glowing recommendation via e-mail, but don't want to waste Usenix bandwidth.