susher@uk.ac.ucl.cs (11/29/88)
Does anyone out there in the big wide world know where I can get a good, intelligent, public domain command line interpreter for a 520STM as I am rapidly losing patience with GEM. I have come to the conclusion, after using both GEM and MacDOS that GEM need replacing. Thanking you inanticipation, Stephen Usher susher@cs.ucl.ac.uk or ucacmsu@euclid.ucl.ac.uk Janet addresses: susher@uk.ac.ucl.cs ucacmsu@uk.ac.ucl.euclid Don't forget! Every silver lining has its cloud!
frandsen@iesd.uucp (Peter Frandsen) (12/06/88)
In his article Stephen Usher writes: |* Does anyone out there in the big wide world know where I can get a good, |* intelligent, public domain command line interpreter for a 520STM as I |* am rapidly losing patience with GEM. I have come to the conclusion, after |* using both GEM and MacDOS that GEM need replacing. I`ll recommend a shell called Gulam (Gulaam). In use Gulam 'looks' like csh of UNIX 4.xBSD. It provides: - more than 60 built-in commands - file name completion - history - alias - integrated editor (small is beautiful microEmacs) - file transfer The Gulam source is not public domain, it is copyrighted. BUT it is a free program. FROM Peter Frandsen Aalborg University Center Denmark
ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (Lee Dickey) (12/08/88)
In article <93@ucl-cs.UUCP> susher@uk.ac.ucl.cs writes: > >Does anyone out there in the big wide world know where I can get a good, >intelligent, public domain command line interpreter for a 520STM as I >am rapidly losing patience with GEM. I have come to the conclusion, after >using both GEM and MacDOS that GEM need replacing. I recommend Gulam. It is not PD, because the author holds the copyright on the source code, but it is free, and may be shared with others. I think it is great. I set the prompt to look something like the prompt that I use on the un*x box at the office. It has tenex-style name completion and accepts wild cards in file names. I can have little command shells that I can execute from Gulam, it has aliasing, and allows me to set variables. When I boot my system, I autocopy gulam to the ramdisk and then autostart gulam from the ram. Occasionally, I use the desktop and the mouse, but mostly it is gulam or APL. Gulam has xmodem built in. It also has ue, (a version of micro-emacs) built in, and it has te, a terminal emulator, like a VT52. This latter does not come up to the standards set by Uniterm, but, since it is there, (and since Uniterm does not have APL characters yet -- soon, Simon ? :-) ), I sometimes use te, or the closely related TOM, an APL terminal emulator. Gulam has 62 built-in commands, and un*x users will recognize many: alias dm endwhile help more printenv set ue cat dirc exit history mson pushd setenv unalias cd dirs fg if msoff pwd source unset chmod echo fgrep kb mv rehash sx unsetenv copy egrep foreach lpr peekw ren te which cp ef format ls pokew rm teexit while date endfor gem mem popd rmdir time df endif grep mkdir print rx touch I love Gulam. -- L. J. Dickey, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Waterloo. ljdickey@WATDCS.UWaterloo.ca ljdickey@water.BITNET ljdickey@water.UUCP ..!uunet!watmath!water!ljdickey ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu
pdusek@dahlia.waterloo.edu (Peter Dusek) (12/09/88)
In article <93@ucl-cs.UUCP> susher@uk.ac.ucl.cs writes: > >Does anyone out there in the big wide world know where I can get a good, >intelligent, public domain command line interpreter for a 520STM as I >am rapidly losing patience with GEM. I have come to the conclusion, after >using both GEM and MacDOS that GEM need replacing. In addition to Gulam, I would recommend MINIX for the ST. Minix is a complete V7 Un*x operating system for the ST. It has most of the Un*x utilities and tools included and comes with an assembler and C compiler. Minix uses the Bourne shell for the user-interface. One possible quirk is that the Minix operating system is different from TOS, so you cannot run normal ST programs with it. However, it is a very good replacement for TOS. Minix sells for about $80 US and comes with complete sources. An additional bonus is that Minix is fully multitasking. Peter. ------ -- <<< Fire, fire, burning bright In the jungles of the night What mortal hand or earthly eye Could trace thy fearful symmetry? >>>
hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu) (12/09/88)
Just seconding that recommendation there. It was kind of daunting to get
into, since I'd been using Mark Williams' msh for so long. But msh was
too limiting, and Gulam is just terrific. I wish I had a shell on my Unix
box that had all these features. (Mebbe I do, I've got the tcsh sources,
but haven't tried 'em yet...)
There are a few problems with it and Mark Williams make, though, so I can't
get rid of msh just yet.... I think John Dunning's Minimal Shell may fill
the bill there, though...
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