[comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d] v06i068: ms_sh v1.5, Bourne-like shell for MS-DOS

rahardj@ccu.umanitoba.ca (B. Rahardjo) (04/10/90)

>  Trust me, NOBODY got them, because my internet feed seems to have had
>a problem with them. As soon as I get enough space in the outgoing spool
>directory of this machine I'll report them. I sure hope a new working
>disk comes soon, I'm almost ready to start mounting floppy disks for the
>extra MB!

>bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen)

Hmm.. I got them all (4 parts) on my site. I have installed it on my pc.
The manual is not very clear (IMHO), for example I can get 'pwd'
and 'cd' to work properly, but I can't access other commands
such as ls, more, sed, gawk... etc., and external programs...

Anybody got it working ... ? Please tell me how..

-- Budi rahardjo
-- 
Budi Rahardjo <rahardj@ccu.umanitoba.ca> <rahard@ee.umanitoba.ca>
Electrical Engineering - University of Manitoba - Canada

fredex@cg-atla.agfa.com (Fred Smith) (04/10/90)

In article <1990Apr10.110305.26132@ccu.umanitoba.ca> rahardj@ccu.umanitoba.ca (B. Rahardjo) writes:
>>  Trust me, NOBODY got them, because my internet feed seems to have had
>
>>bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen)
>
>Hmm.. I got them all (4 parts) on my site. I have installed it on my pc.
>The manual is not very clear (IMHO), for example I can get 'pwd'
>and 'cd' to work properly, but I can't access other commands
>such as ls, more, sed, gawk... etc., and external programs...
>
>Anybody got it working ... ? Please tell me how..
>
>-- Budi rahardjo



pwd and cd work because they are internal to the shell. ls, more, sed,
gawk, etc., aren't internal--you gotta have an executable file for
it.

There are scads of unix-like programs around, for example picnix.

I have a unix-like more for msdos systems, now up to verison 2.4.1,
which Bill should soon (?) be releasing on c.b.i.p., so if you are
interested keep your eyes open.



Fred

wjin@cs.purdue.EDU (Woochang Jin) (04/11/90)

In article <1990Apr10.110305.26132@ccu.umanitoba.ca> rahardj@ccu.umanitoba.ca (B. Rahardjo) writes:
>The manual is not very clear (IMHO), for example I can get 'pwd'

No, manual is not really clear.

>and 'cd' to work properly, but I can't access other commands
>such as ls, more, sed, gawk... etc., and external programs...

You should set PATH to the diretories where such programs exist.
BTW, I cannot do 'mkdir'.
Could anybody tell me how to do this ?
Also, when I tried 'cp dir1/*.zip dir2', it complains error.
Does anyone have such experience or know how to solve this problem ?

Thanks, in advance.

---------
W. Jin

CMH117@psuvm.psu.edu (Charles Hannum) (04/11/90)

In article <10292@medusa.cs.purdue.edu>, wjin@cs.purdue.EDU (Woochang Jin) says:
>
>Does anyone have such experience or know how to solve this problem ?

Yes.  Get a real Unix system.  That will solve all your problems.

Seriously, people.  If you want Unix, then get Unix.  You'll be *much* happier
if you do.  Believe me.


Virtually,
- Charles Martin Hannum II       "Klein bottle for sale ... inquire within."
    (That's Charles to you!)     "To life immortal!"
  cmh117@psuvm.{bitnet,psu.edu}  "No noozzzz izzz netzzzsnoozzzzz..."
  c9h@psuecl.{bitnet,psu.edu}    "Mem'ry, all alone in the moonlight ..."

wjin@cs.purdue.EDU (Woochang Jin) (04/11/90)

In article <90100.171933CMH117@psuvm.psu.edu> CMH117@psuvm.psu.edu (Charles Hannum) writes:
>
>Seriously, people.  If you want Unix, then get Unix.  You'll be *much* happier
>if you do.  Believe me.

I believe you. I know how I can be *much* happier if I have enough money.
But I think I have to depend on unix-like's until I earn enough money 
to buy 386/unix/xwindow,...etc. Just remember that everyone is not rich 
enough to buy those stuffs.
So, give me a break.

>Virtually,
>- Charles Martin Hannum II       "Klein bottle for sale ... inquire within."
>    (That's Charles to you!)     "To life immortal!"
>  cmh117@psuvm.{bitnet,psu.edu}  "No noozzzz izzz netzzzsnoozzzzz..."
>  c9h@psuecl.{bitnet,psu.edu}    "Mem'ry, all alone in the moonlight ..."

------
W. Jin

andy@mks.com (Andy Toy) (04/11/90)

In article <10292@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> 
wjin@cs.purdue.edu (Woochang Jin) writes:

>BTW, I cannot do 'mkdir'.
>Could anybody tell me how to do this ?

	command /c mkdir dir

mkdir is probably not a builtin command in ms_sh.

>Also, when I tried 'cp dir1/*.zip dir2', it complains error.
>Does anyone have such experience or know how to solve this problem ?

cp is probably not a builtin either.  You need external mkdir.exe and
cp.exe programmes in your PATH.  You can find them on archive servers
such as wsmr-simtel20.army.mil or get a commercial package :-)
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