steve@mks.UUCP (steve) (06/03/86)
The expanded MKS Toolkit, version 1.4, is a package of UNIX-like software development tools designed for the IBM PC, XT, AT, and compatibles. These programs load and run under MS-DOS but have the same functionality as their UNIX counterparts. Recently added programs include awk, diff, sed, cpio, tee, and c (produce columnized output). Also included is a full glob (for filename expansion). The package now consists of over 60 utilities: awk banner c cal cat chmod cmp baseneame comm cp cpio cut date dd dev df diff dirname du echo ed egrep expr fgrep file find gres head help join kill lc line ls mkdir mv nm od paste prof ps pwd rev rm rmdir sed size sleep split strings strip sum switch tail tee test time touch tr uniq unstrip wc Prof is a program profiler for DOS that reports execution time per routine. It does not require re-compilation of the command. Price: $93 (plus 7% Ontario sales tax if applicable to Ontario residents). For further information or to order contact: Mortice Kern Systems Inc., 43 Bridgeport Rd. E., Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2J 2J4 519-884-2251. uucp: watmath!mks!ruth MasterCard and VISA orders accepted.
dzoey@umd5.UUCP (Joe Herman) (06/04/86)
Gee, I thought advertising wasn't allowed on the net. Just to give an alternate point of view about those tools, many of them can be found in the Public Domain SOFTARE TOOLS, written in pascal. I don't know if anyone has ported them to MSDOS yet, but I have seen the source code and it's written PASCAL/VS (IBM Mainframe) I also know that a SOFTWARE TOOLS implementation is written in RatFor. Now, I have never seen MKS toolkit, and there are functions on there that are not in the SOFTWARE tools implementation, but I was just generally offended that this newsgroup was being used for advertisement of a product by the company as opposed to a consumer recomendation. Joe Herman Of course, this represents my own opinion, not the university's or IBMs. DZOEY@UMD2.UMD.EDU -- "Everything is wonderful until you know something about it."
perelgut@utai.UUCP (Stephen Perelgut) (06/06/86)
All the tools described in SOFTWARE TOOLS (written in Pascal and RatFor) are now available as FreeWare in the Turing programming language. Turing is available from the University of Toronto (utcsri!distrib or distrib@Toronto). The translation of the Kernighan&Plauger SOFTWARE TOOLS was done at Queen's University under the direction of Prof. J.R. Cordy. I've got copies of the tools if you want them. -- Stephen Perelgut Computer Systems Research Institute, University of Toronto Licence is granted to retransmit this message so long as the body, Subject, addressee's and sender are not altered in any way. This message is not to be transmitted to anyone other than the original adressee's.
rlw@briar.UUCP (Richard Wexelblat) (06/12/86)
In article <165@mks.UUCP> steve@mks.UUCP (steve) writes: > The expanded MKS Toolkit, version 1.4, is a package ofUNIX-like software > development tools designed for the IBM PC, XT, AT, and compatibles. I got a pre-release copy of the MKS toolkit and am having some problems with it -- the install doesn't complete, the rm hangs the computer, ls -lx acts like ls -l... I'll send an update to this message after I've called MKS. --dick wexelblat {seismo|decvax|ihnp4}philabs!rlw