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- From: "bill dehaan" <bill.dehaan@canrem.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
- Subject: re: i love mks
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.1479.4266@dosgate>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 21:41:01 EST
- Reply-To: "bill dehaan" <bill.dehaan@canrem.com>
- Distribution: comp
- Organization: Canada Remote Systems
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- EG>In message <1992Jul15.154851.19173@pony.Ingres.COM>,Ed Goldman
- writes:
-
- EG>MKS sounds interesting, but I don't know much about it. Could someone
- EG>describe the contents, price, where to get it, etc ... ?
-
- MKS stands for Mortice Kern Systems, who produce it. It is an excellent
- package, a port to DOS (and OS/2) of about 150 Unix utilities.
- Originally flogged as a Unix/DOS and Unix/OS2 bridge, it is a set of
- standardized utilities that are shipped with Unix V.
-
- Most of the utilities exist for DOS in various public domain forms (I
- can't count all of the grep, ls, and awk implementations I have seen),
- but MKS has several advantages:
-
- - the stuff works, and works _together_
-
- - it's all consistent
-
- - it is fully sysV compliant
-
- I have a copy from when I worked in a Unix/DOS environment back in 1989.
- It saved my sanity (well...). You can configure your DOS or OS/2 system
- to look exactly like Unix. The commands are identical (except of course
- where OS/2 or DOS lacks the function of the command), and a complete
- korn shell is provided (I prefer 4OS2, myself).
-
- At any rate, here's a list of the programs supplied. If you don't know
- what any of them are, check out any Unix documentation. If you don't
- have access to Unix, and don't know what the commands are, then this
- package isn't for you anyway.
-
- Package contains:
-
- awk banner basename bdiff c cal calendar cat cd chdir cmp chmod cmp
- comp compress cp cpio crypt ctags cut date dd deroff dev df diff
- diff3 diffh dirname du echo ed egrep env ex expand expr fg fgrep
- file fmt fold getopt gres head help init jobs join kill lc line
- login ls mkdir more mv nl nm od pack passwd paste pcat pg pr prof ps
- pwd rev rm rmdir rsh sed sh size sleep sort spell split strings
- strip sum switch synch tail tee test time touch tr tty uname
- uncompress unexpand uniq unpack unstrip vi wc which who
-
- Address is (or at least was, in 1989):
-
- Mortice Kern Systems
- 35 King Street North
- Waterloo, Ontario
- Canada
- N2J 2W9
-
- Phone: (519) - 884-2251
- Fax: (519) - 884-2270
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