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From: mkhaw@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA (Mike Khaw)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms,comp.org.decus,comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: UNIX-style shell
Message-ID: <25833@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA>
Date: 14 Nov 88 07:03:09 GMT
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<149@vmsa.technion.ac.il>, by ben@vmsa.technion.ac.il (Ben Pashkoff):
> There is also a DEC product DECshell that is a Bourne shell, and does include
> piping.
> It is VERY slow, but not bad.

DECshell is not cheap.  Also, it only implements a Unix V7-ish Bourne shell
(e.g., no "more", no "egrep").  Unless you absolutely have to run on VMS,
I suspect it would be cheaper to buy an AT-clone and run SysV.


Mike Khaw
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