MKS Toolkit Product Overview

All the tools of the trade for professional programmers, application developers, and engineers

What is MKS Toolkit?

MKS Toolkit is a powerful set of software tools designed to make computing tasks quick and easy on your PC. Many of these utilities were once only available on UNIX systems. But now, MKS has made them available for all the contemporary operating systems, including DOS/Windows, OS/2, and Windows NT. MKS Toolkit adds more than 190 new commands to your software repertoire, including a kornshell, vi, awk, awkc, grep, uucp, and many other valuable utilities. These commands can be linked together to create even more powerful operations.

Powerful Desktop Tools

MKS Toolkit offers a variety of essential desktop tools which perform important daily functions such as moving and copying directories, word counts, sorts, spell checking, file type recognition, and basic calculations. One of the most powerful features in MKS Toolkit is the KornShell command interpreter. While providing all systems with the same look and feel, the KornShell still allows you to run all of your existing DOS, OS/2, or NT applications. The KornShell enables you to edit and re-execute previously used commands, saving time on those repetitive jobs. You can also define aliases for commonly used commands or abbreviations for commonly used strings, and create loops and functions. Add the KornShell's capability of accepting command line input up to 8192 characters, compared to just 127 on DOS, and you start to get an idea of why the MKS KornShell is so popular with PC users.

Editing Tools

MKS Toolkit offers a variety of editing tools such as a stream line editor, command line editor, full screen editor, and translation filter. The Vi full screen editor makes it possible to interactively edit text files up to 65,000 lines. Vi offers both a command line interface and a graphical user interface. Vi for Windows is a complete menu-driven Windows application with fully functional scroll bars, font selections, mouse support, and sizeable windows. Dialog boxes are provided to open files, set Vi options, and enter macros. Dare to Compare with Vdiff Instantly view differences between two text files with the Visual Diff utility for Windows. Visual Diff provides a side-by-side comparison of two text files, displaying color coded differences. You determine the colors used to indicate lines of text that have been changed, added, or deleted.

Transfer Data Between DOS, OS/2, NT and UNIX

Transferring data between operating systems has always posed a problem due to the incompatibility of file systems. MKS Toolkit's file transfer utilities make it easy to move data between DOS, OS/2, NT, and UNIX whether you are using disks or tape. By using one of the data transfer tools such as tar, mt, cpio, dd and pax, you can transfer files onto a floppy disk and take that disk directly to a UNIX system to be read. The same applies to reading a UNIX floppy on your DOS, OS/2, or NT PC. Data is now completely transportable between operating systems.

Become Part of the Growing Crowd:

Power up your PC and take a major step toward greater flexibility and productivity. MKS Toolkit, with its 190+ software development tools, is a must for any PC user.

Don't take our word for it, read what other people just like you have to say:

"Whether you're a programmer, administrator or power user, the MKS Toolkit turns Windows NT into a world-class operating system with a world-class set of commands and utilities. I wouldn't run without it." - Unixworld's Open Computing, July 1994

"MKS Toolkit for DOS really helped me to get my work done instead of wasting time trying to figure out how to do certain things in the DOS fashion. I just installed MKS Toolkit for OS/2 and equally love it. It gives me a platform-independent stepping stone to work in new environments without allowing me to lose my edge over operating system basics." - Dave Holcomb, RDO Software, Orem, UT, USA.

"MKS software is a must have for any PC user!" - David Rein, DBR Consulting, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.

"MKS Toolkit is the most important software I own." - Jake Ford, Software Mechanics, Wilsonville, OR, USA.