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From: u31b3hs@cip-s02.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Michael Haardt)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Shells
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Date: 12 Feb 91 10:49:22 GMT
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In "Re: Shells" Warren Toomey writes:

>ksh:    Korn shell, ported to Minix. Diffs for Minix on plains.
Diffs for what? Perhaps 386 or ST MINIX.  I ported ksh to PC 1.5.10 ACK
by removing most of its features, for example if, getopts and print.
This does not matter, because these functions are availabe as extern
programs. Unfortunately, I had to remove filename completion too,
because asld was unable to do its work, although the binary should fit
into the segment.  It was the first time I thought for longer than a
second about cross-compiling with Turbo-C.

The command line editor is really nice, but without filename
completion... My favourite shell is a hacked Bourne shell with a simple
line editor including history and filename completion.  I made this hack
within one hour and I will use it until someone of the developers post
the new POSIX shell.

Namaskaar

Michael Haardt (u31b3hs%cip-s01.informatik.rwth-aachen.de@unido.bitnet)

PS: I will post Origami next week!  You will see a revolution in editing!