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- From: cnadler@vnet.ibm.com (Cliff Nadler)
- Subject: Re: OS/2 Wish List
- Sender: @watson.ibm.com
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.142851.38643@watson.ibm.com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 14:28:51 GMT
- News-Software: IBM OS/2 PM RN (NR/2) v0.16 by O. Vishnepolsky and R. Rogers
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- Reply-To: cnadler@vnet.ibm.com (Cliff Nadler)
- References: <1993Jan23.233249.15201@news.columbia.edu> <jcmorris.728067551@mwunix> <gershon.728114431@husc.harvard.edu>
- Organization: IBM T. J. Watson Research
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- In <gershon.728114431@husc.harvard.edu> gershon@husc11.harvard.edu (Ethan Gershon) writes:
- >Also: A PM-based command line interpreter. Like an xterm with scroll
- >back and resizable windows. Stdin/out apps (like copy, unzip, etc) would
- >appear in the window, full screen apps (like TED) would have a fresh
- >window set up for them. Pull down menus would do useful things like
- >command history, directory switching and searching, copy/paste, etc.
- >(I realize this could probably be written by a third party, but it
- >really seems like something that should be included with the OS (more
- >than, say, the Tune Editor should be).)
-
- Have you looked at PMREXX using REXXTRY.CMD? That will put you into a REXX
- command prompt (where you can run any OS/2 command) in a PM window. You'll
- have to put some characters in quotes (so the REXX interpreter doesn't
- misinterpret what you type in, but ...) like *,^,@.
-
- Cliff Nadler
- IBM Federal Systems Company
-
- Note: This post represents the views of the poster, not those of IBM or the
- IBM Federal Systems Company
-