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From: cck@deneb.ucdavis.edu (Earl H. Kinmonth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Unix Shells......
Message-ID: <5175@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>
Date: 24 Aug 89 02:47:22 GMT
References: <2877@quanta.eng.ohio-state.edu> <7547@cg-atla.UUCP>
Reply-To: cck@deneb.ucdavis.edu (Earl H. Kinmonth)
Organization: University of California, Davis
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In article <7547@cg-atla.UUCP> fredex@cg-atla.UUCP (Fred Smith) writes:
>In article <2877@quanta.eng.ohio-state.edu> JOE@rcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Joe Rohde) writes:

>>Is there a good csh type shell for msdos, either as a command.com
>>replacement (Which would be preferred), or add on program?

Some people might perceive "good csh type shell" as an oxymoron.

>There are also a couple of real unix or unix-like shells avaiable--
>MKS  sells what is supposedly a complete Korn shell (I haven't
>used it).

The MKS korn shell is as complete as such a thing can be under MSDOS.
The only thing that is missing is the & to run jobs in background.  No
shell, no matter how well implemented will make MSDOS into an
"operating system" rather than a "program loader."

The MKS Toolkit offers more value for the money than any piece of
MSDOS software I can imagine.

Disclaimer:  Just an ~~~extremely~~~ satisfied user.