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From: gyugyi@portia.Stanford.EDU (Paul Gyugyi)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: How are people developing?
Message-ID: <1990Jul15.195557.16913@portia.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 15 Jul 90 19:55:57 GMT
References: <6034@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Organization: AIR, Stanford University
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In article <6034@sugar.hackercorp.com> karl@sugar.hackercorp.com (Karl Lehenbauer) writes:
>the terminal program.  Maybe a shell that was written to look like the DOS
>shell but that was designed to run under Windows would help.  Clearly, that
>would be Microsoft's province...
>
I've written a limited version of a DOS shell in Actor, mianly using the Actor
exec(<A String>) command, so that I can have my cd, ren, del, copy, md, rd, 
etc. commands.  One trouble I'm having is how to read a directory of files in
Actor.  Currently, I've creating a windows file-listbox (but not displaying it)
and asking it for the list of filenames to print.  It's a wretched kludge,
and if anyone has any suggestions...
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Paul Gyugyi
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