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From: ilan343@violet.berkeley.edu (Geraldo Veiga)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Unix-like shell for IBM
Message-ID: <1990Oct14.013316.20436@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: 14 Oct 90 01:33:16 GMT
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In article <1990Oct13.010928.1732@odetics.com> frank@odetics.UUCP (Frank Merrow) writes:
>In article <1990Oct11.195759.11163@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> eagle@hobbes.catt.ncsu.edu (Daniel L'Hommedieu) writes:
>>Is there a replacement shell for PC-DOS that will replace COMMAND.COM
>>and allow Unix commands? I am continuously entering Unix commands at the
>>DOS prompt, and DOS commands at the Unix prompt.  If there isn't one
>>already, I'll just end up writing it.  Please reply via email. Thanks in
>>advance for any info!
>
>of them give you the "look and feel" of Unix with litterally EVERYTHING
>you are used to (grep, awk, cat, shell, etc....).  The only two things
>you will miss with both packages is 1) multi-tasking (DOS won't do it) and
>csh (if that is your preferred shell).  However, MKS provides ksh which
>is basically Born Shell (sic) with the things from csh you REALLY want
>(history and command fetch from history).

The ksh also gives much better command line editing.  I second the
recommendation of the MKS tool kit.