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From: leo@ehviea.ine.philips.nl (Leo de Wit)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: MiNT
Message-ID: <893@ehviea.ine.philips.nl>
Date: 28 Sep 90 11:27:50 GMT
References: <1990Sep20.213540.12460@ecst.csuchico.edu> <5499@harrier.ukc.ac.uk>
Reply-To: leo@ehviea.UUCP (Leo de Wit)
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In article <5499@harrier.ukc.ac.uk> dac@ukc.ac.uk (David Clear) writes:
|If MiNT is in the public domain, wouldn't it be nice (!) if there was a
|multi-tasking C shell (as there is for Micro RTX) for it... and if that were
|also public domain (with full sources), wouldn't THAT be nice :-)
|
|Anyone want to write it? :-)

Well, I use a shell that I wrote myself several (3?) years ago. This is
a Bourne type shell with command recall hacked in; it also can
'preload' programs (I typically preload 'ls' and 'pwd' for speed), sort
of a substitute for builtin functions, but with greater flexibility and
keeping the shell itself small.

There are some problems with quoting still that I didn't care to solve;
but this would be a challenge for a devoted programmer. I'd probably
write different (better?) code now, but it would be a good starting
point.  The code contains the hooks and pointers for multi-tasking,
without actually implementing it (or implementing by resorting to
temporary files). Probably a piece of cake to convert for MiNT or RTX
(it should support both if possible).

Add job control and aliases and you get a G (gee) shell 8-).

What should I best do with it? Mail to selected individuals, or send to
the sources moderator? I probably can't do it myself, having too little
time to undertake yet another project. Feedback appreciated.

    Leo.