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From: sears@sun.uucp (Daniel Sears)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: using a shell within MS-Windows
Message-ID: <75496@sun.uucp>
Date: 31 Oct 88 22:43:03 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc. - Mtn View, CA
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In window systems like X and NeWS, it is possible to invoke a terminal program
with a separate instance of the command-line interpretor so that a user can
have multiple shells running.  In UNIX, this is usually the C shell, Bourne
shell or Korn shell.  In the DOS world, we usually think of a virtual terminal
program as a program to control a modem for remote login.  Are there any
terminal programs for MS-Windows that allow a user to invoke the DOS
command.com interpretor (or better yet, MKS Korn shell)?  qvt was recently
posted to comp.binaries.ibm.pc; is it useful in this capacity?

--Dan Sears
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Daniel Sears                Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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