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From: linco@eng.umd.edu (Sam Lin)
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Subject: Re: MS-DOS Batch files
Keywords: UNIX Shell
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Date: 27 Feb 90 06:09:50 GMT
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In article <360@tau-ceti.isc-br.com> geraldb@tau-ceti.isc-br.com (Gerald Bryan (Denver)) writes:
>Does anyone know of a batch file executor that looks like UNIX's Bourne
>shell but runs under MS-DOS ?  Or of any similarly powerful batch file
>executors ?
>

There was a recent posting of the source code for the Bourne shell,
ported from Minix to MS-DOS in either comp.sources.misc or
comp.sources.unix (I forgot which one).
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