sdl@linus.UUCP (Steven D. Litvintchouk) (12/27/86)
I just tried to run the Matt Dillon shell V2.01A (Steve Drew's Manx version), from the CLI in Workbench 1.2. The shell starts up OK. However, it does not seem to be able to recognize any "built-in" program as a command. Any such commands as "run", "type", "stack", etc., in the c: directory, return an error message, "Command not found :" followed by the name of the command. In fact, I cannot invoke any program (e.g. extras:tools/emacs) from the shell at all! I keep getting "Command not found :". Has anyone else encountered this; is there an easy fix? Thanx very much in advance!!! Steven Litvintchouk MITRE Corporation Burlington Road Bedford, MA 01730 Fone: (617)271-7753 ARPA: sdl@mitre-bedford UUCP: ...{cbosgd,decvax,genrad,ll-xn,philabs,security,utzoo}!linus!sdl
root@mentat.UUCP (doug) (12/27/86)
The reason why you can't use Steve Drew's V2.01A version of Matt Dillon's shell under WB1.2 is due to a problem with the fexecv() function. Steve actually documented this in the release of that version, but who reads documentation, right? He says that you can fix this to use the execute() function instead simply by #defining USE_FEXEC to 0 rather than 1 in the shell.h file. Many thanks to Steve for documenting this. Doug Merritt hoptoad!mentat!doug, pesnta!mentat!doug, ucbvax!unisoft!certes!mentat!doug