Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!clarkson!grape.ecs.clarkson.edu!nelson From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) Subject: Re: Building a better DOS revisisted (getting close to UNIX) Reply-To: nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu (aka NELSON@CLUTX.BITNET) Organization: Clarkson University, Potsdam NY Date: 22 Jun 91 22:37:11 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: sorrow@oak.circa.ufl.edu's message of 21 Jun 91 19:04:47 GMT References: <0094A761.C2F6D640@MAPLE.CIRCA.UFL.EDU> Sender: usenet@grape.ecs.clarkson.edu In article <0094A761.C2F6D640@MAPLE.CIRCA.UFL.EDU> sorrow@oak.circa.ufl.edu writes: Second, there is no utility with the GNU stuff to do command line completion and command line history and editing. I downloaded from wuarchive a little utility called HISTORY.COM with it's source and it looks real good. However, it is dated 1988 and was written by Michael Rubinstein and Russell Nelson. What I would like to know is if I can rewrite the code (it is UGLY) then reupload it as freeware. Yes, it's UGLY, but it doesn't take up too much memory either. It was written in Aztec C but ported to BC++ just fine (in C mode). TASM compiled the one .ASM file perfectly. No, Michael wrote it in Aztec C and I ported it to Turbo C. Also, I changed it so that it was more UNIXy (BSD...I use the tab key for completion). Yes, I'd change that also (now). -- --russ I'm proud to be a humble Quaker. I am leaving the employ of Clarkson as of June 30. Hopefully this email address will remain. If it doesn't, use nelson@gnu.ai.mit.edu.