hsgj@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Dan Green) (01/15/87)
I recently downloaded Matt Dillon's Shell V2.04 and have a couple of questions. The first is that if you type in a command that the shell doesn't know, it checks df0:. Unfortunately my C: and SYS: and path are all for the harddrive, dh0:. Why isn't the current directory searched for commands? Second, a friend was impressed by the "unix-ness" of the shell, and tried to use a carrot ^ to replay (with editing) the last history command. To be exact, he typed "dip", and then after the "command failed", he typed ^ip. He wanted to type "^ip^ir" but accidently hit RETURN too early... The shell prompt never came back. About 30 seconds later, after some frantic RETURN hitting, the system rebooted itself. Oops. Granted he had not read the manual, so perhaps that ^ command is not implemented. But still, a lockup? Otherwise, the Shell is pretty interesting. PS: I am using the executable version recently from the net, with V1.2G. -- Dan Green -- ARPA: hsgj%vax2.ccs.cornell.edu@cu-arpa.cs.cornell.edu UUCP: ihnp4!cornell!batcomputer!hsgj BITNET: hsgj@cornella
jea@ur-cvsvax.UUCP (Joanne Albano) (01/15/87)
My copy of shell 2.04 works great. THe ^ command works as expected. My only complaint is that version gives me v2.03 even though the date is 22 of Oct? Do I have the correct copy? ps it was the posted binary.
dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) (01/20/87)
>I recently downloaded Matt Dillon's Shell V2.04 and have a couple >of questions. The first is that if you type in a command that the >shell doesn't know, it checks df0:. Unfortunately my C: and SYS: >and path are all for the harddrive, dh0:. Why isn't the current >directory searched for commands? Second, a friend was impressed The shell has a $_path variable which lists the directories to search when trying to find an external command (The current directory is always searched). The default tries RAM:, DF0:, and DF1:. You can change it to whatever you want. -Matt