Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Path: utzoo!utdoe!david
From: david@doe.utoronto.ca (David Megginson)
Subject: Re: What's the BEST CLI for the ST
Message-ID: <1991Mar12.144653.11654@doe.utoronto.ca>
Reply-To: david@doe.utoronto.ca (David Megginson)
Organization: Dictionary of Old English Project, University of Toronto
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1991 14:46:53 GMT


Bash and ksh are Unix shells, so they have a user and support base many
times larger than the ST could ever afford, and both of them run well
under MiNT. Shells like gulam are not too nice, because they have all
of the commands built-in. That's acceptable if you're running only one
invocation of a shell, but if you have three shells open in three MGR
windows, and a fourth running a script in the background, it's a ridiculous
waste of valuable memory. Besides, it's nice to be able to run
commands like rm(1) and cp(1) in the background instead of waiting
for them to finish.

I would not suggest using any shell which does not use MiNT, since it
will not have multi-tasking (please, no more flames from people who
can't tell multi-tasking, running many tasks, from multi-processing,
using more than one processor) or true pipes (using temporary files
just doesn't cut it).


David
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