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From: pm@mandrill.CWRU.Edu (Prabhaker Mateti)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Gulam (Beta Test Release)
Message-ID: <2305@mandrill.CWRU.Edu>
Date: Sun, 8-Nov-87 15:02:43 EST
Article-I.D.: mandrill.2305
Posted: Sun Nov  8 15:02:43 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 11-Nov-87 04:29:19 EST
Organization: Case Western Reserve University
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Keywords: shell, csh, freeware


A few days ago, I sent the beta release of Gulam shell to turner@daisy.
He will be posting it to the net soon.  To help you decide if you care
to save the uuencoded archives, here is a short description of the
present state of Gulam.  

	Gulam is a shell written and copyrighted by pm@mandril.cwru.edu; it
is (and will be) distributed free of charge.  It is not warranteed; on
the other hand, I and many others find the present implementation
eminently useable, and indeed use it all the time, in preference to
other shells. 

	The present beta-version (dated Nov 1987) is a result of fixing bugs,
internal code improvements, and user-visible improvements.  Gulam.prg
is about 88200 bytes, and gulam.doc is about 78000 bytes.  Users are
encouraged to tell me both good and bad things about this program. 


	Here is a list (complete?) of things new and/or diffrent from the
alpha-version. 

  1. the bugs causing memory-lossage have been fixed.
  2. an application program can now call one of *Gulam*'s routines
     that is equivalent to system() call.
  3. an application program can now call one of *Gulam*'s routines
     that can receive keyboard input from the user, with all the facilities of
     `ue', and return the line input by the user.
  4. `ue' can now insert-file.
  5. stdout append-redirection (`>>') is now implemented.
  6. a new sub-word consisting of three dots `...' expands to the list
     of all filenames rooted at the current or given directory.
  7. doing a `set path <path-list>' will also cause an automatic
     `setenv PATH <path-list> ; rehash'.
  8. `ue' can now fill-paragraph.
  9. new shell variable `verbosity' controls how silent *Gulam* is.
 10. cp will not copy directories and their contents unless
     given the `-r' flag.
 11. `ue' can now use mouse movements as cursor
     movements (see mscursor).
 12. diskettes can be formatted (single/double-sided) in TOS standard way.
 13. the command mem can not only report the GEMDOS free-list but also the list
     of GEMDOS Malloc-ated chunks.
 14. shaded background on the screen is provided for the `gem' command.
 15. the keypad keys can be toggled to become numeric
     or extra-function keys.
 16. there are 3 separate key-bindings for the one *gulam* buffer, and
     the one *mini* buffer, and all the regular buffers.



-- 
prabhaker mateti,   case western reserve university,  cleveland, oh 44106
{decvax,cbosgd,sun}!mandrill!pm     pm@mandrill.cwru.edu     (216) 368-2816