madd@bucsb.bu.edu.UUCP (12/11/86)
In article <1799@ncoast.UUCP> kent@ncoast.UUCP (Kent Williams) writes: >As for those who have called my program a 'naive implementation', go write >your own, and come back 3 months later and talk to me. No kidding. I've been writing one too, and it's tougher than it looks. >The NEXT version you see on the net will be rewritten from the ground up - >I am reverse-engineering csh from the Xenix V.2 documentation. If any >Berkeley Purists out there want it to be any more c-shell like, they can >send me the manual page for the berkeley C-Shell. Suggestion: Use a hot-key to make a pseudo-suspend command. This would allow you to drop back into PC-SHELL and do resident commands (such as cp, cd, rm, etc). This immediately makes the shell more useful and more UNIX- like, with relatively little work. (I've already played with the idea -- it works.) >For those of you who expressed disdainful opinions of my program, keep in >mind the effort that went into it, with little assurance of any reward. I >estimate that my financial return per copies in use right now is about >25 cents a copy. But did you have fun making it? That's why I'm writing mine.