daanjj@neabbs.UUCP (DAAN JITTA) (12/23/88)
Recently Howard Chu wrote: <stuff about Minix hacking deleted> > For example, one thing that drives me absolutely nuts is using the > backslashas a directory separator. I wish this were a modifiable > system variable. It's so amazingly inconvenient... But also amazingly > trivial. I haven't given up TOS yet, because my favorite application, > Uniterm, only runs under TOS. Ah well... <more about Minix deleted> Howard, If you almost want to "forget" TOS expects backslashes as dir separator in stead of the slash, give the excellent CRAFT package a chance. It consists of a superfast editor (STedi, in most respects a lot faster than Tempus) and a shell which comes very close to csh- you sometimes don't know if you're working on the ST or on a UNIX box! (OK, no multitasking, that's the most important difference with csh). This shell, the GPshell, has a user-selectable directory separator (slash or backslash). Among the many other features I name: command-line history editing (is there life without it?), built-in ramdisk, spooler, redirection and piping, csh-like shell scripts, hashtable for programs along $path, cdpath support, filename completion, invisible workarounds for many GEMDOS bugs (eg. redirection, key repeat), powerful *real* pattern matcher, supports XARGV argument passing, FED font loader, a lot of UNIX utilities like fgrep, pr, more, make, cmp, diff, wc, head, tail, etc. etc. I don't know of any distributor out there in the States; the product is marketed here by: ComMedia Leidsekade 98 NL-1017 PP Amsterdam Tel. (Netherlands)020-231740 It's just GREAT!!! Daan* UUCP: {seismo,uunet}!mcvax!telemail!neabbs!daanjj daanjj@neabbs.UUCP Fido: 2:280/1 / daan jitta Disclaimer: I have no commercial relation with ComMedia, I'm just a very satisfied beta tester.