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From: daanjj@neabbs.UUCP (DAAN JITTA)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Directory seperators & shells (was A proposal--TOS Replacement Project)
Message-ID: <80205@neabbs.UUCP>
Date: 23 Dec 88 00:32:13 GMT
Organization: NEABBS multi-line BBS +31-20-717666 (13x), Amsterdam, Holland
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Recently Howard Chu wrote:

  <stuff about Minix hacking deleted>
> For example, one thing that drives me absolutely nuts is using the 
> backslashas a directory separator. I wish this were a modifiable 
> system variable. It's so amazingly inconvenient... But also amazingly 
> trivial. I haven't given up TOS yet, because my favorite application, 
> Uniterm, only runs under TOS. Ah well...
  <more about Minix deleted>

Howard,

If you almost want to "forget" TOS expects backslashes as dir 
separator in stead of the slash, give the excellent CRAFT package a 
chance. It consists of a superfast editor (STedi, in most respects a 
lot faster than Tempus) and a shell which comes very close to csh- 
you sometimes don't know if you're working on the ST or on a UNIX 
box! (OK, no multitasking, that's the most important difference with 
csh). This shell, the GPshell, has a user-selectable directory 
separator (slash or backslash). Among the many other features I name:
command-line history editing (is there life without it?), built-in 
ramdisk, spooler, redirection and piping, csh-like shell scripts, 
hashtable for programs along $path, cdpath support, filename 
completion, invisible workarounds for many GEMDOS bugs (eg. 
redirection, key repeat), powerful *real* pattern matcher, supports 
XARGV argument passing, FED font loader, a lot of UNIX utilities like 
fgrep, pr, more, make, cmp, diff, wc, head, tail, etc. etc.

I don't know of any distributor out there in the States; the product 
is marketed here by:

        ComMedia 
        Leidsekade 98
        NL-1017 PP Amsterdam
        Tel. (Netherlands)020-231740

It's just GREAT!!!
Daan*

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Disclaimer: I have no commercial relation with ComMedia, I'm just a 
            very satisfied beta tester.