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From: jr@amanue.UUCP (Jim Rosenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.m68k
Subject: Re: Software for OS9/68K
Message-ID: <244@amanue.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 14-Oct-87 01:40:09 EDT
Article-I.D.: amanue.244
Posted: Wed Oct 14 01:40:09 1987
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References: <163@sems.UUCP> <841@pur-phy>
Reply-To: jr@amanue.UUCP (Jim Rosenberg)
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In article <841@pur-phy> piner@newton.physics.purdue.edu.UUCP (Richard Piner) writes:
>In article <163@sems.UUCP> olof@sems.UUCP (Olof Backing) writes:
>Actually, I'm looking for a port of cshell or vi. Professional
>OS9/68K comes with a copy of micro-emacs which is ok, but not great.
>The standard shell is fast but dumb. It does not pass arguments to
>scripts.

I'm as frustrated with the OS-9 shell as you are, but there does appear to
be a way to pass *an* argument to a script.  Multiple arguments is another
story -- I still don't know how to do that.  There is a command called cfp
which will replace the character '*' with each of a series of arguments, and
execute the resulting script.  E.g. if the script is called foo and looks like

cat newheader >-new/*
grep -v "#" * >+new/*

then cfp foo *.c would be roughly equivalent to UNIX

for i
do
	cat newheader >new/$i
	grep -v "#" $i >>new/$i
done

-- you can read it in the manual.  Not very good compared to a real shell,
but it gets around a tight spot until someone writes one.

There's a public domain shell in Marc Rochkind's Advanced UNIX programming
book that beats the socks off of what OS-9 has.  Anyone volunteer to port it?
:-)
-- 
 Jim Rosenberg
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