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- From: yuk@hpopd.pwd.hp.com (Yuk Lun Chan)
- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 10:03:05 GMT
- Subject: Re: Port of unix 'find' on OS/2?
- Message-ID: <-191499998@hpopd.pwd.hp.com>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard SSG/CCSY-PWD, UK.
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- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
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- >comp.os.os2.apps / ochealth@unixg.ubc.ca (ochealth) / 6:56 am Nov 7, 1992 /
- >In article <1992Nov6.234042.19189@netcom.com> feustel@netcom.com (David Feustel) writes:
- >>For those of you who would rather just buy the program, MKS sells a
- >>toolkit that contains a complete wuite of unix utilities (including
- >>the desired 'find' program) for both dos and os/2.
-
- >but why? The GNU utilities are FREE, they have source code, and they
- >are POSIX, and contain extended features and performance enhancements
- >that put the standard UNIX utils to shame. After using GNU in OS/2,
- >the standard SunOS tools seem inferior, and not worth using.
-
- If you are producing a commerical project. You would want a stable tools or
- whatever. If the MKS kit failed, you nail them. If your GNU tools failed,
- you boss nail you. That is the trouble of public ware.
-
- Yuk
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