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From: wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Need LOGIN Shell for MS-DOS
Summary: Try the MKS (Mortice Kern Systems) Toolkit
Keywords: MSDOS
Message-ID: <841@neoucom.UUCP>
Date: 13 Dec 87 06:53:47 GMT
References: <145@tsdiag.UUCP>
Organization: Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine
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The latest release of MKS Toolkit includes the Korn shell.  It is a
pretty clean port of the Unix version.  The whole toolkit is
somewhere around $US 200.  I think it is possible to get the
toolkit unbundled, but getting the whole thing is probabably the
most cost effective.  It also includes a nice port of the vi editor
and awk.

A while back somebody (from MKS I believe) posted an 8088 assembler
written in awk.

You can run the korn shell from command.com (my choice), or if you
are hard core, you can rig command.com to enter ksh directly and
set it up for a login prompt.

It isn't unix, but it ani't too bad.  Add uupc (pc mail) from the
net, and you've got a pretty neat environment.

I think you can correspond with them at tookit@mks.UUCP.


I case you wondered, I don't have any financial (or other)
intereset in MKS.  Only have used the product.


--Bill