On 16 May 2012 03:51, Clark WANG <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 6:44 PM, Cedric Blancher > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On 14 May 2012 10:25, clark wang <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Anywhere I can learn more about AST? The AST overview and FAQ links >> > under >> > http://www2.research.att.com/sw/download/ are broken. For now ksh is the >> > only thing I know about AST. >> >> AST can partially be seen as the successor of the SUS/POSIX subset of >> the A&T UNIX System V userland utilities. This includes, but is >> certainly not limited to, ksh93. Almost all stuff from SUS/POSIX is >> present except awk. > > > I'm a Linux (~8 years) and Solaris (~8 months) user so what can I benefit > from AST except ksh93? Any reason for me to learn more about AST stuff?
Well, comparing AST vs Solaris utilities: The AST utilities are standard conforming (compare this to the pre-standard mess in Solaris's /usr/bin), much faster (usually even faster than GNU coreutils) and more feature-rich. They also have a excellent and responsive development team, something Solaris lacked for many years until the rise of Opensolaris, and now lacks again after the fall of Opensolaris, too. Lionel _______________________________________________ ast-users mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.research.att.com/mailman/listinfo/ast-users
