Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!water!ljdickey From: ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (Lee Dickey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: A CLI for the ST Message-ID: <1972@water.waterloo.edu> Date: 8 Dec 88 02:09:28 GMT References: <93@ucl-cs.UUCP> Reply-To: ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (Lee Dickey) Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 46 In article <93@ucl-cs.UUCP> susher@uk.ac.ucl.cs writes: > >Does anyone out there in the big wide world know where I can get a good, >intelligent, public domain command line interpreter for a 520STM as I >am rapidly losing patience with GEM. I have come to the conclusion, after >using both GEM and MacDOS that GEM need replacing. I recommend Gulam. It is not PD, because the author holds the copyright on the source code, but it is free, and may be shared with others. I think it is great. I set the prompt to look something like the prompt that I use on the un*x box at the office. It has tenex-style name completion and accepts wild cards in file names. I can have little command shells that I can execute from Gulam, it has aliasing, and allows me to set variables. When I boot my system, I autocopy gulam to the ramdisk and then autostart gulam from the ram. Occasionally, I use the desktop and the mouse, but mostly it is gulam or APL. Gulam has xmodem built in. It also has ue, (a version of micro-emacs) built in, and it has te, a terminal emulator, like a VT52. This latter does not come up to the standards set by Uniterm, but, since it is there, (and since Uniterm does not have APL characters yet -- soon, Simon ? :-) ), I sometimes use te, or the closely related TOM, an APL terminal emulator. Gulam has 62 built-in commands, and un*x users will recognize many: alias dm endwhile help more printenv set ue cat dirc exit history mson pushd setenv unalias cd dirs fg if msoff pwd source unset chmod echo fgrep kb mv rehash sx unsetenv copy egrep foreach lpr peekw ren te which cp ef format ls pokew rm teexit while date endfor gem mem popd rmdir time df endif grep mkdir print rx touch I love Gulam. -- L. J. Dickey, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Waterloo. ljdickey@WATDCS.UWaterloo.ca ljdickey@water.BITNET ljdickey@water.UUCP ..!uunet!watmath!water!ljdickey ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu