Dave.Douglass@rubbs1.FIDONET.ORG (Dave Douglass) (08/26/88)
I'm looking for a decent command shell on the ST. I've found out that there is a lot of crap out there. I have Gulam, and I'm not happy with it because I don't want EMACs and I want to be able to set the tab stops (why is this such a RARE feature in Atari ST text editors?) I'm not saying the Gulam is crap--I know that if I fail to mention that I have it, everyone will recommend it to me...... Can anyone tell me about the Micro C shell or the MT C shell? Are they worth the money? Is there a decent version of Vi for the ST? --------- Dave Douglass Computer Sciences Corporation Piscataway, NJ 08854 .....!rutgers!rubbs1!dave.douglass (201) 981-9119 x6417 -- Dave Douglass - via FidoNet node 1:107/330 UUCP: ...!rutgers!rubbs1!Dave.Douglass ARPA: Dave.Douglass@rubbs1.FIDONET.ORG \...!rutgers!rubbs1!Dave.Douglass
daanjj@neabbs.UUCP (DAAN JITTA) (08/27/88)
Dave, The package you are looking for is called CRAFT. CRAFT contains a very good shell (called "GPshell") and editor (called "STedi"), the last one completely written in assembler (FAST!). The "GPshell" is almost 100% csh compatible. It is even possible to use a slash as the default path separator! History, commandline editing with cursor keys, I/O redirection, pipes, aliases, REAL pattern matching, filename completion, if-then-else, foreach, switch: GPshell has it all. Plus a lot of utilities: an integrated make, format, time, built-in ramdisk & disk cache, fgrep, etc etc. One of the (many) excellent features of "STedi" is a very powerful and flexible tab handler. You can set tabs anywhere you want (for example tab stops at position 4, 6, 9, 15, 30 & 40). There is also a command to replace spaces by tabs or vice-versa. Using a special FORTRAN wrap-line mode, it is even possible to let STedi automatically insert the continuation character this language needs. CRAFT comes with an extensive manual (in english, over 600 pages) and costs Fl 395,- (about $200). The manufacturer is: ComMedia Leidsekade 98 NL-1017 PP Amsterdam The Netherlands tel. 020-231740 Daan Josephus Jitta ( neabbs!daanjj@telmail.uucp ) Disclaimer: I have nothing to do with ComMedia, I'm only a VERY satisfied beta tester.