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28 Jul 2024 14:23:15 EDT (-0400)
  Re: alternate DOS shell?  
From: Marco Bonetti
Date: 26 Sep 1998 06:18:37
Message: <360cb16d.0@news.povray.org>
>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.


Dan,
you might consider 4Dos ( http://www.jpsoft.com/ ). It is shareware,
but pretty near in functionality to un*x shells (path completition, ...)

                                                                - Marco


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