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From: jmd@usenet.umr.edu (Jim Dumser)
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Subject: Re: MS-DOS Batch files
Keywords: UNIX Shell
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Date: 27 Feb 90 17:02:05 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 ?

sh_dos was recently posted to comp.sources.misc.  It's a DOS implementation
of the Minix sh shell.  Of course you'll have to get your own set of
Unix-like commands to go along with it, but these are pretty much
everywhere.

Jim

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