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28 Jul 2024 14:23:38 EDT (-0400)
  Re: alternate DOS shell?  
From: Ronald L  Parker
Date: 26 Sep 1998 14:47:44
Message: <360d27dc.47193179@news.povray.org>
On Sat, 26 Sep 1998 00:34:15 -0500, Dan Connelly <djc### [at] flashnet>
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.

You can get bash as part of the Cygnus user tools at
http://www.cygnus.com


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