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From: jsommer@hpwad.HP.COM (#Juergen Sommer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Unix-like shell for IBM
Message-ID: <1960026@hpwad.HP.COM>
Date: 16 Oct 90 15:16:47 GMT
References: <1990Oct11.195759.11163@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Waldbronn, Germany
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>>  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!

Maybe try the MKS toolkit. Lots of UNIX commands like awk, vi .... and a
replacement for the DOS shell: ksh!

Juergen Sommer
HEWLETT PACKARD
jsommer@hpwadrd.hp.com