Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!texbell!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: ksh-like shell for the Amiga available (beta) Message-ID: <4509@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 10 Nov 89 00:42:25 GMT References: <13920006@hpfelg.HP.COM> Reply-To: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston Lines: 15 In article <13920006@hpfelg.HP.COM> koren@hpfelg.HP.COM (Steve Koren) writes: > I have just finished a beta version of 'Ash', a ksh-like shell for > the Amiga. I wrote it because I wanted to have a similar environment > at work and at home. Ash supports a bunch of things, a few of which > I'll list here: Why didn't you start with the freeware "ash" shell, a clone of the extended bourne shell for UNIX? That way you could keep the syntax compatible. (I know, 20-20 hindsight) -- Peter "Have you hugged your wolf today" da Silva `-_-' "IT'S THE TWO GODDAMNED CULTURES AGAIN !*! Bit-brained nerdery on one 'U` side, effete fin-de-siecle malaise on the other. And kingdoms of hybrid delight abandoned in the middle." -- burns@latcs1.oz (Jonathan Burns)