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- From: sean@mks.com (Sean Goggin)
- Subject: Re: unix tutorial et al.
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.161649.10507@mks.com>
- Sender: sean@mks.com (Sean Goggin)
- Organization: Mortice Kern Systems, Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 16:16:49 GMT
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- salomon@seas.gwu.edu (A. Lee Salomon) writes:
-
- i am a unix newbie who will be living with nothing but
- ibm-compatibles running dos for the next couple of
- weeks. i would like to continue learning unix (am a
- unix Newbie -- note the cap N!) and ran across an ad
- for MKS Learning Unix on DOS. i am tempted to buy it
- but would like some other opinions first. could anyone
- tell me anything about it? are there other such
- programs out there?
-
- dfox@quack.sac.ca.us (David Fox) writes:
-
- I don't know what the 'MKS Learning Unix on DOS' is. If it's
- the MKS toolkit, that appears to be very good. It's essentially
- a ton of Unix programs ported to DOS - they've gone to great
- lengths to make this look as much like unix as is possible
- given the obvious restrictions that DOS has.
-
- It's the last version of the MKS Toolkit and a introductory book on
- unix, for lower price.
-
- ... There are DOS packages that do UUCP, but they have a
- major disadvantage - they take over the whole machine, since
- DOS is a single-tasking OS.
-
- The current 4.1 (just released) version of the MKS Toolkit has a
- uucp for DOS that runs as a background TSR.
- --
- Sean.Goggin..sean@mks.com.............Mortice.Kern.Systems.Waterloo.Ontario.Can.
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