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From: [e-mail] (der Mouse)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: The Problem with UNIX
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Date: 20 Nov 92 09:26:23 GMT
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Organization: McGill Research Centre for Intelligent Machines
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In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (peter da silva) writes:
> In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (der Mouse) writes:

>> Yes, it might.  So what?  Is "acceptance in the general
>> microcomputer market place" something we wish for UNIX?
> If we want to keep being able to buy nice cheap UNIX systems with
> decent performance for the long-term, yes.

Keep?  You mean they're available now?  The only decent systems I know
of are ones you have to put together from pieces yourself anyway....

> I would say that a friendly shell that does all the command parsing
> (like DCL does) would be quite a nice touch.

You need the equivalent of .cld files to do this.  Since *nobody*
provides them, your user has to write them for every new program
obtained - and that kinda defeats the purpose of having them to begin
with.

(I *think* .cld is the right extension; it's been a long time.)

                    der Mouse

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