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From: rszinn@spurge.waterloo.edu (Scotte Zinn)
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Subject: Re: PushDir/PopDir available?
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Date: 17 Nov 89 02:08:31 GMT
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In article <24073@cup.portal.com> FelineGrace@cup.portal.com (Dana B Bourgeois) writes:
>John, these (and many other goodies) come *FREE* when you buy WShell
>from William S. Hawes.  If you haven't guessed, WShell is a shell program
>and it includes built-in those utilities you mentioned:
>

A great shell program!  I recommend it.

>Pushcd, Popcd, and also Swapcd which exchanges the current cd and the
>the one on top of the stack.  Neat stuff!!

These three commands implement only a subset of the trio found on *nix.
WShell is extensible, and I have successfully written a library of commands
that add the full *nix implementation of the three commands.  One problem
I found though, is that if you tell WShell to use your own library, it will
forget all about it's internal commands.  Thus, with the current version
of WShell you have to implement the internal commands so that they are
resident.  This is not too difficult, except for the batch commands, but
hey, I have and use AREXX so I didn't put those in.

Mr. Hawes told me that the problem of WShell tossing out it's internal
commands when you install your own command library will be fixed in a 
future version.  At that time I will consider sending my library off to
c.b.a unless there is enough interest.


>
>Dana @ cup.portal.com
>
>I'm not related or affiliated with William in any way except I use ConMan,
>WShell, and ARexx - all products written and supported by William which I
>happen to like very much.

Ditto


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