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From: stephen@hpdml93.HP.COM (Stephen Holmstead)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: What should be in future SKsh versions?
Message-ID: <15450002@hpdml93.HP.COM>
Date: 27 Nov 89 16:43:11 GMT
References: <13920018@hpfelg.HP.COM>
Organization: Hewlett Packard - Boise, ID
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Peter da Silva writes:
>In article <13920018@hpfelg.HP.COM> koren@hpfelg.HP.COM (Steve Koren) writes:
>> * tiny-sksh
>
>Just remove most of the builtins (test, etc) and make them seperate
>programs. Like the bourne shell. That should help a bunch.

I second this.

Steve Koren wanted to know of additional features wanted:

On the filename expansion, if an exact match is not available, then
expand as much as possible.  For example, in a directory with the
filenames "foobar" and "foobat", when you type the expand key, it
should expand to "fooba" and beep to tell you that an exact match
wasn't made.  At this point, you can manually type the "r" or the "t"
yourself.

Also, could you put the '-F' flag on your 'ls' program?  This flag will
let you tell the difference between files and directories.  It puts a
'/' after files that are directories, '@' after files that are links,
'*' after files that are executables, and nothing after everything else.
The PD 'ls' program I am using currently will write the names of the
directory in a different color (this would also be acceptable).  Either
that, or allow us a way to replace your built-in 'ls' with one of our
own.

Overall, I am *VERY* happy with the shell that you have written.  Keep
up the good work.

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Stephen Holmstead
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