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From: koren@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Steve Koren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: SKsh 1.7 available
Message-ID: <37090011@hpfcdc.HP.COM>
Date: 5 May 91 17:23:38 GMT
Organization: HP Fort Collins, Co.
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SKsh 1.7 is now available.  SKsh is a Unix ksh like shell which runs on
the Commodore Amiga line of personal computers.  It is about as close as
you can get to a Unix environment under AmigaDos without actually
running Unix.  SKsh is copyrighted, but free, and is available via
anonymous FTP to ab20, or from Fish disks.

A more complete description of 1.7 has been sent to the moderator of
comp.sys.amiga.announce and should be appearing there shortly.  A very
brief list of some new features is included below.

New features include: operation on 3000/2.0 systems, a CDPATH, a
MANPATH, xargs, split, line, new control structures including && and ||,
saving and loading of history lists, ${var:-word} operations, new usage
messages, car, cdr, new supported scripts including pushd/popd, shared
mode for rapid invocation and low mem usage, better file completion,
returning exit codes from scripts/functions, mkdir -p, short circuit
evaluation, works with msh, better support for scripts from other
shells, a customizable message file, vastly improved installation, and
many other features and bug fixes.

[ note: when I tried to upload SKsh017.lzh to ab20 this weekend, there
was no free disk space.  I will upload it as soon as there is enough
free space. - steve ]