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From: fnf@unisoft.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro.6809
Subject: Re: Wanted OS-9 Features
Message-ID: <583@unisoft.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 6-Oct-85 20:38:55 EDT
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Posted: Sun Oct  6 20:38:55 1985
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In article <489@ihwpt.UUCP> knudsen@ihwpt.UUCP (mike knudsen) writes:
>Since somebody asked, and Microware is active on the net:
>Features & Programs I would like best on OS-9:
>
>(1) A REAL Shell, including at least:
>	Wild-card file names with * and ?
>	$1, $2, etc. arguments to shell scripts
>	Some conditional tests (not much)
>	

When I worked for Four Phase Systems about a year ago, I remember that
one of my coworker's wanted the same thing under FPS's ISOS running on
their 6809 machines (ISOS is based on OS-9 as I recall, much like
Xenix is based on Unix).  So he spent a couple of weeks of spare time
and ported the standard system V bourne shell to ISOS.  I understand
that it wasn't real easy, but it was possible, and functioned reasonably
well.  I mention this just to indicate that it might be possible to
do the same thing with the standard OS-9 product.

-Fred


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