sfd@earthquake.Berkeley.EDU (Scott Drellishak) (08/27/90)
Does anyone know of a version of the UNIX C shell (csh) for msdos computers? Obviously it won't do everything the real csh does (job control, for instance), but I'm really tired of COMMAND.COM. If there's no c shell out there, does anyone know where I might get the source to csh? Scott Drellishak
roy@cs.umn.edu (Roy M. Silvernail) (08/27/90)
sfd@earthquake.Berkeley.EDU (Scott Drellishak) writes: > Does anyone know of a version of the UNIX C shell (csh) for msdos computers? I got a version of csh off of SIMTEL. I haven't tried it enough to know how complete it is. -- Roy M. Silvernail |+| roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu |+| #define opinions ALL_MINE; main(){float x=1;x=x/50;printf("It's only $%.2f, but it's my $%.2f!\n",x,x);} "This is cyberspace." -- Peter Da Silva :--: "...and I like it here!" -- me
ucbked@athena.berkeley.edu (Earl H. Kinmonth) (08/28/90)
In article <1990Aug27.071723.10409@agate.berkeley.edu> sfd@earthquake.Berkeley.EDU (Scott Drellishak) writes: >Does anyone know of a version of the UNIX C shell (csh) for msdos computers? >Obviously it won't do everything the real csh does (job control, for >instance), but I'm really tired of COMMAND.COM. If there's no c shell out >there, does anyone know where I might get the source to csh? I can see why someone would become {tired, disgusted, outraged, driven to insanity, etc.} by command.com. I canNOT see why anyone would want to go to csh as an alternative. If you want a **IX shell, check out the MKS Toolkit. It includes an excellent implementation of the Korn shell (the Bourne shell on steroids), vi, awk, and lots of other goodies. Current price from the Programmers Connection is $196. If you really want csh, the Programmers Connection offers a C-Shell by GW computers: $59 for the executable; $429 for executable and source. It's worth buying something from Programmers Connection at least once to get on their mailing list for their superb catalogues. Like the old Allied Radio (that dates me to the pre silicon era) catalogues, they are not just adverts, but real reference works. Disclaimer: just a satisfied customer, but I can be bought. Call for the latest price! Earl H. Kinmonth History Department Centre for Japanese Studies Univ. of California Univ. of Sheffield Davis, California 95616 Sheffield, England S10 2TN ucbked@athena.berkeley.edu
steveha@microsoft.UUCP (Steve Hastings) (08/29/90)
_MKS Utilities_ is a Korn shell. _PolyShell_ is a modified Bourne Shell with all the important C Shell features hacked in. (No job control, of course.) I use _PolyShell_ every day and I don't wish ever to be without it again. -- Steve "I don't speak for Microsoft" Hastings ===^=== ::::: uunet!microsoft!steveha steveha@microsoft.uucp ` \\==|
low@melair.UUCP (Rick Low) (08/31/90)
sfd@earthquake.Berkeley.EDU (Scott Drellishak) writes: >Does anyone know of a version of the UNIX C shell (csh) for msdos computers? Check out Alan Holub's shell as described in his book "On Command: Writing a Unix-Like Shell for MS-DOS" M & T Publishing Inc., Redwood City, CA 94063 published in 1987 ISBN 0-934375-29-1 320 pages plus diskette with source and executable code The book describes the shell operation and the source code in some detail. The shell itself is sort of a csh-clone with command line editing and no job control. I got the book from a computer book club and I've been quite happy with the shell. Between this shell and the Logical Devices Bourne shell clone posted to comp.binaries.ibm.pc recently, I hardly ever touch COMMAND.COM except to boot up my PC. cheers Rick Low +1 613 957 9500 mitel!melair!low@uunet.uu.net -- Rick Low +1 613 957 9500 mitel!melair!low@uunet.uu.net