Dan Connelly wrote:
> 
> While the W95 interface is convenient, I still
> find myself wanting to run from the command line at
> times.  Yet I find the default W95 DOS command line
> shell to be virtually unusable.
> 
> Surely there are alternates out there.... does
> anyone know of public domain DOS shells?  In UNIX,
> I use bash or tcsh, which maintains a large command
> buffer and much more sophisticated command editing
> from the history list.  This is a lot to ask.
> But in DOS, I spend way too much time retyping long
> paths.
> 
> Any suggestions are welcome.

Cygnus's GNU-Win32 toolkit (http://www.cygnus.com/) has a port of Bash
for Windows 95/NT.

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