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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)
Message-ID: <13920012@hpfelg.HP.COM>
Date: 11 Nov 89 18:13:40 GMT
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Organization: HP Elec. Design Div. -FtCollins
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Yet more info:
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A few more bits of information.  The next Ash (1.1) will be 'pure' so you can
make it resident.  This was quite easy to do, and I have it working now.
Its kinda neat since you can make the 'newshell' command automatically fire
up Ash when it makes the new window.  Then, you can set the 'LOGOUT' variable
in Ash to be 'endcli', and the window automatically disappears when Ash
exits.
 
There seems to be a problem with the ArpExit() call that I was originally
using.  It often hangs the CLI window.  I yanked it from the next version,
so 'exit' is reliable again.  (I think maybe it doesn't work since it claims
it closes the arp.library, which may not be a cool thing to do when the
code that does it is *in* in the arp.library).
 
Also, there seems to be a few bugs with the export and getenv Ash commands.
I don't *think* they are Ash bugs, though.  For example, the following
code fails under Lattice 5.02:
 
    #include <stdio.h>
    main(argc, argv)
       int argc; char *argv[];
    {
       putenv("foo2=barbar");
       printf("%s\n", getenv("foo2"));
    }
 
I get really wierd results, anything from 'barbaro2' to 'barbar:foo2'.
If this is really a Lattice bug (unless somebody sees something here I
don't), I can't make getenv and export work right until it is fixed.
(I've tried malloc()ing the string passed to putenv(), which doesn't help
at all).
 
Also, I should mention that Ash requires 1.3.  I haven't tested it at
all under 1.2, but I suspect it won't run.  It depends on a number of
1.3 things.

     - steve (koren@hpfela.HP.COM)