Path: utzoo!attcan!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: <4566@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 18 Nov 89 15:13:04 GMT References: <13920006@hpfelg.HP.COM> <13920010@hpfelg.HP.COM> Reply-To: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston Lines: 22 In article <13920010@hpfelg.HP.COM> koren@hpfelg.HP.COM (Steve Koren) writes: > > 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. > Hmm. The only other 'ash' I know about is the 'arp' one, and it is far > from being a clone of bourne shell. In fact, my 'Ash' is much closer to > that. Maybe you're talking about something else? Yep, I sure am. I dislike the ARP approach and haven't paid much attention to them. I'd never heard of their "ash". The one I'm talking about is a bourne shell clone on UNIX. Now why would one clone the bourne shell on UNIX? To enhance it, of course, like Korn did. This one is less ambitious than Korn's, it merely provides the System V Bourne shell functionality for Pre-SYSV UNIX. But it's Freeware. Wouldn't it be nice to have a real UNIX shell source to start with? I can try digging it up if you like. -- Peter "Have you hugged your wolf today" da Silva `-_-' 'U` "I am the ghost of aquariums past" -- Robotman.