Korn shell available?

[Chuck Karish]

In article <1988Aug26.215001.14603 at gpu.utcs.toronto.edu>
woods at gpu.utcs.Toronto.EDU (Greg Woods) writes:
>In article <2934 at ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> ucdked!cck at deneb.ucdavis.edu
(Earl H. Kinmonth) writes:
>> In article <5302 at killer.DALLAS.TX.US> tensor at killer.DALLAS.TX.US
(Steven Murphy) writes:
>> >Is there Korn shell available for Xenix x86? Please let me know. Any other
>> >shells would also be of intrest.

>BTW:  Does anyone know what the official position of AT&T is regarding
>the inclusion of ksh in a port of System V Rel. 3?  I've been told ISC
>was prevented from including it in the 386/ix release, but Microport
>(and/or Bell Tech.) have made it available.

	AT&T has not bundled ksh as a part of SysV.  It is available
	as a separate product.  If ISC were interested in paying the fees,
	they could distribute it with their system.  My information comes
	from a lecture that David Korn gave last spring.

>If you really want, I think the source for ksh is still available from
>the AT&T Unix Toolchest.  It was $3000.  Not bad for a csh replacement :-)

	This buys you a site license, which has been interpreted to apply
	even to very large sites (whole universities).  I think that the
	price for an individual machine is about $150, for source.  Then
	you get to port it yourself.

	A new version of ksh is supposed to have been released in late
	spring or early summer.  The book on ksh was due for release right
	about now;  we'll probably see it within the next few months.

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