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From: ostroff@penelope.oswego.edu (Boyd Ostroff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Does a Mac command-line file interface exist?
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Date: 15 May 89 20:01:29 GMT
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In article <13478@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> xxiaoye@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Xiaoxia Ye) writes:
>In article <8410@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> bskendig@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Brian Scott Kendig) writes:
>>
>>I realized the other day that the Mac might benefit from this kind of dual
>>interface.  Does any sort of CLI exist for the Mac?  I don't see that it would
:
:
>>Trouble is, I can't find any examples of it.  Could someone point me in the
>>right direction - show me where to find such a program as I seek, send me one,
>
>I am definitely interested in any progress you may have on this query.
>Please e-mail or post any information you have received on this matter.
>
>

Yes, it does exist.  Take a look at the Manx Aztec C shell program.  It is
an implementation of a UNIX bourne shell, and comes with (or used to, at 
least) their "commercial" package.  Quite a number of the standard commands
are built into the shell, like ls, cd, pwd, mv, cp, rm, etc.  Lots of other
UNIX clones are supplied as standalones, like cmp, diff, grep, vi, etc....

It's somewhat slow, but it does the job....

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