Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!columbia!cunixc!howie From: howie@cunixc.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: globbing in the shell Message-ID: <287@cunixc.columbia.edu> Date: Thu, 3-Dec-87 21:10:24 EST Article-I.D.: cunixc.287 Posted: Thu Dec 3 21:10:24 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 6-Dec-87 20:32:02 EST References: <1257@boulder.Colorado.EDU> <6840002@hpcllmv.HP.COM> Reply-To: howie@cunixc.columbia.edu (Howie Kaye) Organization: Columbia University Lines: 24 In article <889@russell.STANFORD.EDU> gandalf@russell.Stanford.edu (Juergen Wagner) writes: >What you need may be something like the TOPS-20 style of interactive help >facility. For many commands you can just hit the '?' key to get some hint >on what is supposed to come next. This, however, requires some kind of >interface to the program to be invoked. Encountering a line > % foo -l frob >followed by typing a special character (e.g. '?') your shell could fork > "foo -help -l frob" We have developed a package which runs under BSD, sysV, and msdos, which implements tops-20 like help and command completion. I gave a short work in progress talk on it at the summer Usenix. See the September ;login: for a description. We have started writing various applications, the largest of which is like the tops-20 MM (mail manager) program. I think some work has gone towards a shell also, though that hasn't progressed too far. The shell would really need to be rewritten from scratch, and we don't have the time. ------------------------------------------------------------ Howie Kaye howie@columbia.edu Columbia University hlkcu@cuvma.bitnet Systems Group ...!rutgers!columbia!howie