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From: donovan@cg-atla.UUCP (Dennis Donovan X5176)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: shell script program for pc
Message-ID: <1248@cg-atla.UUCP>
Date: 8 Jan 88 13:49:27 GMT
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Reply-To: donovan@cg-atla.UUCP (Dennis Donovan X5176)
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In article <4242@watdcsu.waterloo.edu> rhubbs@watdcsu.waterloo.edu (Robert (NetJunkie) Hubbs) writes:
>As it is the new year, it is time for me to make my first outrageous request.
>
>Does any one have, or know of, a program that runs under DOS that will 
>execute unix shell scripts. I have a large number of shell scripts that
>I would love to run on my AT at home but I don't have a version of "SH"
>for it. I have been told by one person that they exist, but I have never
>seen or heard of one.
>
>Anyone know if they exist, or if they are even possible. Gos knows it would
>be useful!
>
>
>===============================================================================
>Hey! Who took the cork off my lunch?
>
>So am I dreaming or what?
>
>Robert (NetJunkie) Hubbs
>===============================================================================

I have bought a book called "On Command: Writing a Unix-Like Shell for MS-DOS".
by Allen Holub,  M&T Books, M&T Publishing.

The book describes a shell that looks like a cross between sh and csh. It has
things like alias and a history mechanism. It also has a script language
that looks more like c-shell script than shell script.

I haven't had alot of time to play around with it but it looks good.
I believe that it originated in Dr. Dobbs Software Tools.

I bought it for ~$40.00 and the book comes with the disk ( both executable
and source code are on the disk ). A second disk with other utilities
( grep, cat, etc.) is available for ~$30.00.

						Dennis

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