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- From: ajahn@digi.lonestar.org (Alfredo Jahn)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: SKsh replacements?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.194040.6867@digi.lonestar.org>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 19:40:40 GMT
- References: <-192769995@hpopd.pwd.hp.com>
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- In article <-192769995@hpopd.pwd.hp.com> ag@hpopd.pwd.hp.com (andy garton) writes:
- >I have recently bought my first Amiga (a 1200 :-) and the software I am most
- >impressed with is SKsh by Steve Koren. As a Unix user at work, I find SKsh a
- >really useful, stable and well documented collection of programs.
- >
- >However, in the documentation for version 2.1 Steve states that he probably
- >won't be developing SKsh any further due to there being several ports of ksh
- >'imminent'. Where are these ksh ports?
- >
- >Are they available on any FTP sites yet? Any news on when they will be (or
- >are they commercial releases)?
- >
- >(I did find something called 'pdksh' but this didn't seem Amigaised and was
- >nothing like as good as SKsh).
-
- Why would *anyone* that has used SKsh want to use anything else? I have used SKsh
- for years. I am at 2.1 now and love it! When we first got our Apollo's at work,
- SKsh on my Amiga made the Apollo implementation of ksh look like s**t... (it
- didn't support ESC-. and ESC-ESC, etc.). (I later found out it was a Domain
- problem and when we went to X the problem was fixed). I have a friend that uses
- pdksh and likes it (he's a real Unix purist!). I personally don't want to change
- from SKsh.
-
- I just hope that Steve Koren doesn't stop supporting his wonderful program (SKsh)
- just because there are other ksh's out there!!! Are you listening Steve? :-)
-
- >Thanks for any info...
- >
- >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- >Andy Garton ag@hpopd.pwd.hp.com
- >Software Development Engineer
- >Hewlett Packard Ltd
- >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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