Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!usc!polyslo!jdudeck
From: jdudeck@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (John R. Dudeck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
Subject: Re: MS-DOS Batch files
Keywords: UNIX Shell
Message-ID: <25eb53da.5111@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>
Date: 28 Feb 90 04:30:18 GMT
References: <360@tau-ceti.isc-br.com> <2659@alpha.cam.nist.gov>
Reply-To: jdudeck@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (John R. Dudeck)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Cal Poly State University -- San Luis Obispo
Lines: 19


>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 ?

The C/Utilities Toolchest from MIX Software, Inc. includes a very good Bourne
shell, along with over 40 Unix-like commands.  It costs $19.95, and you can
get the source code for the shell for $10 more.  Their address is:

Mix Software
1132 Commerce Drive
Richardson TX 75081
Tel: 1-800-333-0330

I have no connection with Mix.  I just bought the package and use it for
some of its commands, such as grep, cat, diff, and pr.  Actually you can
set up a very Unix-like environment if you use the shell.


-- 
John Dudeck                           "You want to read the code closely..." 
jdudeck@Polyslo.CalPoly.Edu             -- C. Staley, in OS course, teaching 
ESL: 62013975 Tel: 805-545-9549          Tanenbaum's MINIX operating system.