bob@asylum.SF.CA.US (Bob Weissman) (04/11/89)
I am looking for a command interpreter which runs under UNIX and emulates the
TOPS-20 (remember?) command interpreter implemented by the COMND JSYS.
For those of you who don't remember TOPS-20, its command interpreter provided
helpful features like command name completion when the user hit ESC (the
origin of csh's filec variable) and verbose prompting when the user hit '?'.
I believe I have seen such a command interpreter fly across the net a while
back. Did anyone save it? I'd much appreciate having it...
Thanks,
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Bob Weissman bob@asylum.sf.ca.us
or bob@well.uucp
or ...!{apple|amdahl}!koosh!bobmem@zinn.MV.COM (Mark E. Mallett) (04/18/89)
In article <1464@asylum.SF.CA.US> bob@asylum.SF.CA.US (Bob Weissman) writes: >I am looking for a command interpreter which runs under UNIX and emulates the >TOPS-20 (remember?) command interpreter implemented by the COMND JSYS. > >I believe I have seen such a command interpreter fly across the net a while >back. Did anyone save it? I'd much appreciate having it... My TOPS-20 COMND library may have been the one you saw. I posted it back in 1984 or so, and I may have submitted a later version since then. It was originally written (in C) for CP/M-80, but I've used it to write applications on various operating systems including MS/DOS, Unix (BSD and System V), TOS (Atari ST), and VAX/VMS. I'll send it off to you (Bob Weissman). -mm- -- Mark E. Mallett Zinn Computer Co/ PO Box 4188/ Manchester NH/ 03103 Bus. Phone: 603 645 5069 Home: 603 424 8129 BIX: mmallett uucp: mem@zinn.MV.COM ( ...{decvax|elrond|harvard}!zinn!mem ) Northern MA and Southern NH consultants: Ask me about MV.COM
fuat@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu (Fuat C. Baran) (04/18/89)
In article <492@zinn.MV.COM> mem@zinn.MV.COM (Mark E. Mallett) writes: >In article <1464@asylum.SF.CA.US> bob@asylum.SF.CA.US (Bob Weissman) writes: >>I am looking for a command interpreter which runs under UNIX and emulates the >>TOPS-20 (remember?) command interpreter implemented by the COMND JSYS. CCMD (developed here at Columbia University) may also be what you are looking for, though it was never posted to the net. It is available via anonymous ftp from cunixc.cc.columbia.edu (128.59.40.130). The current version (soon to be updated) is slightly out of date. Columbia-MM was written using CCMD, as well as various other programs, both here and at other sites. CCMD provides all the standard parsing facilities (file names, user names, keywords, switches, numbers, "TEXTI", etc.) as well as command history. The next release will also have built-in command line editing. For more information, you can contact info-ccmd-request@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu. You can also join a mailing list (not terribly active) by writing to the -request address. You may also be interested in info-topsux (another low traffic mailing list dealing with TOPS-20 to UNIX conversion issues). You can send mail to info-topsux-request@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu to join this list. --Fuat -- INTERNET: fuat@columbia.edu U.S. MAIL: Columbia University BITNET: fuat@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu Center for Computing Activities USENET: ...!rutgers!columbia!cunixc!fuat 712 Watson Labs, 612 W115th St. PHONE: (212) 854-5128 New York, NY 10025
mem@zinn.MV.COM (Mark E. Mallett) (04/25/89)
In article <1422@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu> fuat@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu (Fuat C. Baran) writes: >In article <492@zinn.MV.COM> mem@zinn.MV.COM (Mark E. Mallett) writes: >>In article <1464@asylum.SF.CA.US> bob@asylum.SF.CA.US (Bob Weissman) writes: >CCMD (developed here at Columbia University) may also be what you are >looking for, though it was never posted to the net. It is available >via anonymous ftp from cunixc.cc.columbia.edu (128.59.40.130). The >current version (soon to be updated) is slightly out of date. >Columbia-MM was written using CCMD, as well as various other programs, >both here and at other sites. CCMD provides all the standard parsing >facilities (file names, user names, keywords, switches, numbers, >"TEXTI", etc.) as well as command history. The next release will also >have built-in command line editing. This sounds much more robust that the version that I have written. (I assume that it isn't the fake TOPS-20 library that's bundled with C Kermit.) I would suggest that anyone who has asked me for my library also inquire about this one. (This doesn't mean that I'm ignoring the requests :-) ). Like CCMD, my library is also out of date. Another version has been in the works for a while. It will handle various parsing models (TOPS-20, GEM menus, curses menus, etc.) and other plug-in parts. But by all means, contact Columbia. I intend to.. -mm- -- Mark E. Mallett Zinn Computer Co/ PO Box 4188/ Manchester NH/ 03103 Bus. Phone: 603 645 5069 Home: 603 424 8129 BIX: mmallett uucp: mem@zinn.MV.COM ( ...{decvax|elrond|harvard}!zinn!mem ) Northern MA and Southern NH consultants: Ask me about MV.COM