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From: koren@hpfelg.HP.COM (Steve Koren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: ksh-like shell for the Amiga available (beta)
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Date: 10 Nov 89 14:59:50 GMT
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> I have one question (a question which caused me to stop using Matt
> Dillon's csh program, which I feel is vastly superior to anything else
> I've used). How friendly is it with 1.3? Can I use 1.3 environment
> variables and resident commands? And will it be re-entrant itself?

It will use 1.3 environment variables with the 'import' and 'export'
commands.  'import' reads an env variable into an Ash variable of the
same name, and 'export' creates an env variable from an Ash variable.
I thought Matt's shell did this too, but maybe I'm wrong.

I'm not sure about 1.3 resident commands.  I use ARP to execute programs;
I think that might do it.  I'd have to check.

The beta (1.0) version of Ash can not be made resident.  The "real"
one may very well be.  Lattice 5.xx provides a way to do this, or
so they claim, with little effort.  I haven't tried it yet.  If it
works, and is easy, I'll do it.

       - steve