[aclug-L] Re: Maybe there is hope for the masses.

[Tom Hull <thull@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

FYI, David Korn is uniquely qualified to be authoritative on this,
not just because he wrote ksh, but he also developed an entire Unix
shell/command environment for Windows, called UWIN:

  http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/uwin/

Official ksh93 runs in this environment. I looked at these things
1-2 years ago, and thought UWIN was technically superor to Cygwin
and MKS. (But then I'm a long-time ksh user; bash users may differ.
Cygwin, of course, has the inestimable advantage of coming with
source code; painful as it is to bootstrap, but a better deal long
term.) More links from:

  http://www.kornshell.com/

AT&T has an OSD-compliant source code license for some research
projects. I've heard rumors that ksh may be released under this,
but haven't seen it.

John Goerzen wrote:
> 
> Great anecdote, Ryan.  Maybe I'll have to start watching that show.
> 
> Which reminds me of the following Microsoft gem, that I don't think
> I've posted here yet:

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