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- Brandon,
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- This is part 0 of a five part (sh01, sh02, sh03, sh04 and sh05) archive. It
- contains the source for an implementation of the Unix shell under MSDOS. As
- far as possible it is compatible with the System V.3 program sh(1). The
- following differences are noted:
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- 1) Background or asynchronous commands are not supported
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- 2) Certain internal commands which have no equivalent MSDOS supported
- functionality support (ulimit, time etc) are not provided.
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- 3) Command hashing and accounting are not supported.
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- 4) 8 bit character sets are not supported.
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- The enhancements have been made for the MSDOS environment and these are
- described in the Readme in the archive.
-
- Why - well I spent far to much time swapping between the two to have to
- think about the shell - so I ported the Minix Shell over Christmas. I
- mailed Charles Forsyth who wrote the original version for minix and he is
- happy to allow it to be release (given the copyright notices in the source -
- don't remove the copyright or sell it).
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- We have tested it under MSDOS 3.3 and 4.0 and the DOS box for OS/2. It
- is not designed as a replacement for command.com (since you need command.com
- to load your TSRs), just a program you can run at the end of the autoexec.bat
- to move you into Unix. Of course, once you leave the MSDOS world behind
- and move into a psuedo Unix world you need your own Unix commands (cat, mkdir,
- rmdir etc). But in the words of at least one Professor of Mathematics - that
- it left as a trivial exercise for the reader.
-
- Regards,
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- Ian Stewartson
- Data Logic Ltd, Queens House, Greenhill Way, Harrow, Middlesex, HA1 1YR, UK.
- (Phone) +44 1 863 0383 (Telex) 888103 (Fax) +44 1 861 2010
- +44 81 863 0383 after May 1990.
- (Network) istewart@datlog.co.uk or ukc!datlog!istewart
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