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From: a218@mindlink.UUCP (Charlie Gibbs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: shells
Message-ID: <668@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 5 Nov 89 17:42:13 GMT
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In article <3240@lab.udel.EDU> acm131@eric.ccs.northeastern.edu
(Craig Scott Lennox) writes:

>I'm looking for a shell (CLI) for the Amiga which will emulate
>a Unix Korn, C or Bourne shell.  Are there any out there (PD or
>commercial) which will provide a believable enough illusion of
>Unix?

I'm still using Matt Dillon's Shell2.07m, which is on a Fish disk
somewhere.  I think later versions have been produced, but this
one is good enough for me.  Many commands are built in, and they
have more of a Unix syntax; switches are preceded by a hyphen as
God intended, with none of those damned keywords.  If any of the
commands aren't already their Unix equivalent (e.g. dir and copy)
the built-in alias facility can fix them up.  The wild card
character is an asterisk.  There is a history complete with
command editing and the ! search.  Shell scripts are apparently
supported fairly well, although I haven't taken the time to get
into it.  But most important of all (to me, anyway), any file
copy assumes the CLONE option.  This feature alone was sufficient
to get me using the shell, since I consider date stamps far too
important (e.g. for version control) to allow the standard CLI
to destroy them.

     Along with the shell I'm using on my bridge board (UNCLE
even flips the MS-DOS backslash around the right way again),
I can type Unix commands wherever I go.

>                                        Craig.

Charlie_Gibbs@mindlink.UUCP
"I used to be indecisive, but now I'm not so sure."