dlyons@Apple.COM (David Lyons) (10/21/89)
In article <11306@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes: >[...] >It's hard to implement a nice UNIXy shell on the IIGS because of lack of >multitasking, although there are several attempts that rely on, in effect, >"chaining" shell->program->shell etc. to simulate subprocesses. ProSel-16, >DAVEX, ECP-16, and maybe other (generally shareware) products can be found >on most large commercial information services. I think most of them are >not APW-compatible, though, which is a problem. Just to clarify a couple of things: Davex is indeed Shareware, and it runs under ProDOS 8 (it's a DAL Systems product). ProSel 16 is *commercial*, by Glen Bredon, and available directly from him (not on any legitimate online service, except as uploaded by Glen in encrypted form). ECP 16 is, I believe Freeware these days (please correct me if I'm wrong, anybody). ProSel 16 and ECP 16 are APW-compatible *to a degree* (not enough that you can run the APW/ORCA editor or languages from them, though). -- --Dave Lyons, Apple Computer, Inc. | DAL Systems AppleLink--Apple Edition: DAVE.LYONS | P.O. Box 875 America Online: Dave Lyons | Cupertino, CA 95015-0875 GEnie: D.LYONS2 or DAVE.LYONS CompuServe: 72177,3233 Internet/BITNET: dlyons@apple.com UUCP: ...!ames!apple!dlyons My opinions are my own, not Apple's.
delton@pro-exchange.cts.com (Don Elton) (10/22/89)
Comment to message from: dlyons@apple.com (David Lyons)
Yeah, ECP16 is freeware now as is ECP8. Source code has been released for
ECP8 for anyone who wants to hack on their shell a little and I'll probably do
the same for ECP16 after I add a few more things to it (on a time available
basis so this may take awhile given how little time I have these days).
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