On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Lionel Cons <[email protected]>wrote:
> 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. > Thanks a lot. > > Lionel >
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