Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!rutgers!mit-eddie!bu-cs!bucsb.bu.edu!madd From: madd@bucsb.bu.edu.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,net.sources Subject: PC-SHELL suggestion (was: Re: PC-SHELL flames) Message-ID: <657@bucsb.bu.edu.UUCP> Date: Thu, 11-Dec-86 09:25:23 EST Article-I.D.: bucsb.657 Posted: Thu Dec 11 09:25:23 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 14-Dec-86 11:34:29 EST References: <1799@ncoast.UUCP> Reply-To: madd@bucsb.bu.edu.UUCP (Jim "Jack" Frost) Distribution: net Organization: ODO (Organization for the Disorganization of Organization) Lines: 23 Xref: watmath comp.sys.ibm.pc:431 net.sources:5964 Mood: Hungover In article <1799@ncoast.UUCP> kent@ncoast.UUCP (Kent Williams) writes: >As for those who have called my program a 'naive implementation', go write >your own, and come back 3 months later and talk to me. No kidding. I've been writing one too, and it's tougher than it looks. >The NEXT version you see on the net will be rewritten from the ground up - >I am reverse-engineering csh from the Xenix V.2 documentation. If any >Berkeley Purists out there want it to be any more c-shell like, they can >send me the manual page for the berkeley C-Shell. Suggestion: Use a hot-key to make a pseudo-suspend command. This would allow you to drop back into PC-SHELL and do resident commands (such as cp, cd, rm, etc). This immediately makes the shell more useful and more UNIX- like, with relatively little work. (I've already played with the idea -- it works.) >For those of you who expressed disdainful opinions of my program, keep in >mind the effort that went into it, with little assurance of any reward. I >estimate that my financial return per copies in use right now is about >25 cents a copy. But did you have fun making it? That's why I'm writing mine.