Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 alpha 4/15/85; site enea.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!mcvax!enea!sommar From: sommar@enea.UUCP (Erland Sommarskog) Newsgroups: net.followup Subject: Re: Unix from a snob's point of view! Message-ID: <952@enea.UUCP> Date: Fri, 25-Oct-85 14:17:53 EST Article-I.D.: enea.952 Posted: Fri Oct 25 14:17:53 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 31-Oct-85 06:15:00 EST References: <298@weitek.UUCP> <951@enea.UUCP> <839@kuling.UUCP> Reply-To: sommar@enea.UUCP (Erland Sommarskog) Distribution: net Organization: Enea Data, Sweden Lines: 21 In article <839@kuling.UUCP> christer@kuling.UUCP (Christer Johansson) writes: > >Decide for yourself what commands, switches etc you want. Ask your local guru >if there is programs that do those things, then write your own >commandinterpreter that forks and execls. You'll have to learn have to do the >things you want done, but then you could forget them, and use your own shell. I knew that this argument would I show up, yet I didn't mention it my article to make it long. You know one thing, Christer? Those days I was a student, which wasn't very long ago, I had also had the time doing what I felt. These days I could have spent my time write command interpreters for Unix or VMS or ... you name it. I could continue in this way, but to keep it short: If I have to write my own command interpreter to use an operating system, then I refuse it. That is too much work. Specially when it implies the learning of a language which I consider as obscure, namely C.