Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Message-ID: <002c01be6e59$0dc3e800$991157c2@dialup.ru> Reply-To: "Valery Tulnikov" From: "Valery Tulnikov" To: "Suhaib M. Siddiqi" , "cygwin" References: <002701be6e54$1a460fe0$2d3b4ec6@hunda> Subject: Re: Good News; Questions about Korn Shell for Win32 Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 23:27:11 +0300 Organization: Demos-Internet MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="koi8-r" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2013.600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2013.600 You're absolutely right. But I think the weakest side of all of those projects is a much smaller support from free developers as a result of close to public source policy. With best regards, Valery Tulnikov, valtul@demos.su http://www.dol.ru/users/valtul ----- Original Message ----- From: Suhaib M. Siddiqi To: Valery Tulnikov ; Weiqi Gao ; cygwin Sent: Sunday, March 14, 1999 10:51 PM Subject: Re: Good News; Questions about Korn Shell for Win32 > > > > >I remembered the old discussion in uwin list concerning MKS Toolkit. David > >Korn was skeptical on this implementation of ksh and MS decision to license > >it. He also informed that the only 'right' ksh implementation on Win32 is > >included with UWIN package. > > > > But he also wrote in one of his message on U/WIN, Datafocus has been around > much longer then U/WIN therefore it could be more polished product compared > to U/WIN. So, who has the right implementation or a better product becomes > more debatable. > > Regards > Suhaib > > > >With best regards, > > > >Valery Tulnikov, > >valtul@demos.su > >http://www.dol.ru/users/valtul > > > >> Wasn't the MKS Toolkit licensed to Microsoft to be included in the next > >> version of NT? I remember reading a press story about Mr. Korn showing > >> up in one of the Microsoft demos, and challenged the compliance of that > >> version of Korn shell, which the Microsoft manager vehemently denied > >> until someone pointed out that he's being challenged by Mr. Korn > >> himself. > >> > >> -- > >> Weiqi Gao > >> weiqigao@a.crl.com > >> > >> -- > >> Want to unsubscribe from this list? > >> Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com > > > > > >-- > >Want to unsubscribe from this list? > >Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com > > > > > > > -- > Want to unsubscribe from this list? > Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com