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From: fredex@cg-atla.UUCP (Fred Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Searching for but haven't found
Keywords: help?
Message-ID: <8125@cg-atla.UUCP>
Date: 1 Dec 89 18:30:41 GMT
References: <342@aeshq.UUCP>
Reply-To: fredex@cg-atla.UUCP (Fred Smith)
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In article <342@aeshq.UUCP> jim@aeshq.UUCP (Jim Roberts) writes:
>A TSR that allows you to view screens that have already scrolled by.
I have seen, in years past, a program named BACKSCRL which remembered
some number of lines of data and allowed scrolling back thru it. It is a TSR. I
THINK it is shareware. Don't know where it can be obtained.

 
>A program which asks for another disk instead of the disk full error while
>copying.  (Would it also allow you to copy a 600K file on 2 360 disks?)
I have a version of cp which, when used with the -b (backup) switch will stop and
prompt you to change disks. It is available as part of Allen Holub's /util
package from M&T PUblishing. (The package comes with source and a book about the
tools and the routines used to create them, for around $40 U.S.)

 
>STEVIE or another vi clone?
MKS sells a reportedly good vi clone. Custom Software Systems also used to sell a very good
one, but they have gone out of business.

 
>PCcurses  I've heard about this here, and would linke to find it.
PCcurses 1.3 can be had from simtel20, among other places. I foudn my copy on
a local PC BBS system a year or so ago.

 
>A Unix like 'find' 'awk' and 'sed'
These tools are available from MKS also, along with a whole raft of other unix tools 
for DOS. Russ Nelson (of Clarkson U.) also has written a good version of find, but
I don't know where it is currently available. I got mine from another local PC BBS
some time ago.

 
>A shell other than COMMAND.COM?  (This includes 4DOS, but not exclusively)
I am using Allen Holub's "Unix-like Shell", whose name is "sh". It is inspired
by (i.e., not identical to) the unix csh, but offers many useful features for the
DOS user, e.g., aliases, history, command-line editing of history list, a real
script language (subset of csh) with some nice features, allows use of the proper
slash in pathnames (as God intended) rather than the brain-damaged backslash which
DOS insists on, etc., etc. It is also available from M&T Publishing for about $40
including source and a good book describing usage and architure.


 
>The Interrupt List.  (Yes, the whole thing.  I remember asking about this
>	before, but I still don't have it)  (How about the patch program
>	for applying the diffs posted to update it?)
I`ve got verison 5/89 of it, but it is too dogone big to mail!
 
 
>
>  Jim Roberts
>
>-- 
>Jim Roberts {utgpu,mnetor}!geac!aeshq!jim |
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Fred Smith
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