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From: drew@geac.UUCP (Drew Sullivan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: More John Dvorak comments
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Date: 7 Sep 88 14:00:46 GMT
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A PC-shell for the Mac, who needs it.  If you get a copy of the MPW shell
(Macintosh Programmers Workshop) you get a shell that blows the unix shells
out of the water for power (given single tasking :-<), Let alone DOS's next
to useless command.com.

The MPW shell is command line oriented but has multiple windows. It will
execute any line that you can point to.  You can cut/paste under program control
(Files can be mapped to window, which can have a region defined, where you
can apply all of the unix like commands to).  

You can dynamically add menus, and run canned commands from menus. (I never
really bothered).  The shell has all of the Regular Expression support of
the unix shells and unix ed.  It has all of the flow control support of
the unix shells and you can extend it via shell scripts or C programs.

Would I recommend it.  To any one who wants a shell, yes.  To your average
user No.  (The average user doesn't need or want it.  They might have to
learn someting.)

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-- Drew Sullivan <drew@lethe.uucp>   +1 416 225-1592  Toronto, Ontario, Canada