ksh 11/16/88e now available in AT&T Toolchest

[Mark Towfiq]

In article <1990Sep28.205053.16456 at cbnews.att.com> lvc at cbnews.att.com
(Lawrence V. Cipriani) writes:

   ksh 11/16/88e is now available in the AT&T Toolchest; there
   is a $150 upgrade for previous purchasers.

   [rest of yucky advertising deleted]

   Okay, okay, this is a blatant advertisment!  What of it!?

There are several things wrong with this blatant advertisement:

	1) It has always been frowned upon to post ads to regular
	groups, and some people are actively hostile to it.  Most
	netters try to be more objective about mentioning products, so
	that even if they talk about their own product, they mention
	pros and cons WRT other products.

	2) The ksh is a miserable piece of junk, when compared to the
	GNU superset shell, BASH (which supports ksh-like vi-type
	editing, and built-in help, among other things).  GNU is free,
	with modifiable source; ksh costs money.

	3) People don't want junk postings any more than they want
	junk mail.  There is a newsgroup for this stuff, you know.
	I'll let you read news.announce.NEWUSERS to find out what it
	is.

Please refrain from this in the future.
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Mark Towfigh, Racal InterLan, Inc.                 towfiq at interlan.Interlan.COM
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