rsellens@watdcsu.UUCP (Rick Sellens - Mech. Eng.) (07/26/85)
In article <225@sdcarl.UUCP> andy@sdcarl.UUCP (Andrew Voelkel) writes: >I am considering the possibility of writing some subset of what looks like >a unix "shell" (really just a history mechanism to cut down on repeated >long command lines), since queries as to the existence of such a facility >have been unsuccessfull. I have written a shell that we are currently beta testing. It seems to be fairly robust, but I don't want to make any guarantees yet. (I didn't want to respond to the earlier discussion because it was far from complete at that time.) The features are: - full featured command line editing (like the basic editor) - history - previous commands selected for editing using arrow keys. - aliasing - fully recursive, with detection of circular references. (ie "alias ls ls -lu" is ok) - parses single and double quotes reasonably so that you can send characters like <,>,| etc to a program without DOS interpreting them as redirection. - incorporates a virtual device name facility which allows the definition of names which point to paths, for shorter command lines. ie vdev thesis c:\rick\school\droplets\thesis\ ed thesis:chap1 At the moment I'm not too sure how I want to handle this. I'm leaning towards "no frills" packaging and a price around $30. The other alternative is to cast it loose as shareware. Is there enough of a market for something like this to make it worth the effort? Please let me know by mail. Rick Sellens UUCP: watmath!watdcsu!rsellens CSNET: rsellens%watdcsu@waterloo.csnet ARPA: rsellens%watdcsu%waterloo.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa