sears@sun.uucp (Daniel Sears) (11/01/88)
In window systems like X and NeWS, it is possible to invoke a terminal program with a separate instance of the command-line interpretor so that a user can have multiple shells running. In UNIX, this is usually the C shell, Bourne shell or Korn shell. In the DOS world, we usually think of a virtual terminal program as a program to control a modem for remote login. Are there any terminal programs for MS-Windows that allow a user to invoke the DOS command.com interpretor (or better yet, MKS Korn shell)? qvt was recently posted to comp.binaries.ibm.pc; is it useful in this capacity? --Dan Sears -- Daniel Sears Sun Microsystems, Inc. Technical Publications MS 5-42 (415) 336-7435 2550 Garcia Avenue sears@sun.com Mountain View, CA 94043
spolsky-joel@CS.YALE.EDU (Joel Spolsky) (11/01/88)
In article <75496@sun.uucp> sears@sun.uucp (Daniel Sears) writes: | Are there any | terminal programs for MS-Windows that allow a user to invoke the DOS | command.com interpretor (or better yet, MKS Korn shell)? qvt was recently | posted to comp.binaries.ibm.pc; is it useful in this capacity? Just double click on COMMAND.COM to get a command-line interpreter in a window. I don't know about Ksh. +----------------+---------------------------------------------------+ | Joel Spolsky | bitnet: spolsky@yalecs uucp: ...!yale!spolsky | | | arpa: spolsky@yale.edu voicenet: 203-436-1483 | +----------------+---------------------------------------------------+ #include <disclaimer.h>
todd@metheus.UUCP (Todd Stewart) (11/09/88)
In article <41898@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> spolsky-joel@CS.YALE.EDU (Joel Spolsky) writes: >In article <75496@sun.uucp> sears@sun.uucp (Daniel Sears) writes: >| Are there any >| terminal programs for MS-Windows that allow a user to invoke the DOS >| command.com interpretor (or better yet, MKS Korn shell)? > >Just double click on COMMAND.COM to get a command-line interpreter in >a window. I don't know about Ksh. > Or if you want a really large command.com session so you can run a "real" program in the middle of a windows session, try the following: Use PIFEDIT to create a command.pif with these attributes: Memory Required 640K Memory Desired -1K Modifies Screen yes Modifies Memory yes When you double click on this COMMAND.PIF the windows kernel will swap itself out to disk, and spawn a child command.com with all memory available to it less about 12K. Just type exit when you're through, and windows pops back up the way you left it. The only bad news is that you have to close any other windows apps (except MS-DOS EXEC) before you can do it. Yes, I know you could do the same thing by exiting windows and coming back in again later, but doing it this way is faster. -Todd Stewart Metheus Corporation