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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.
Dan
--
http://www.flash.net/~djconnel/
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>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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>> But in DOS, I spend way too much time retyping long
paths. <<
Dan, will loading Doskey do the job or do you require a more
sophisticated keyboard buffer? I load Doskey on bootup and it suffices
for what I do on the command line.
If you repeat the same long command lines frequently have you tried
committing them to batch files?
- Alan
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>> But in DOS, I spend way too much time retyping long
paths. <<
Dan, will loading Doskey do the job or do you require a more
sophisticated keyboard buffer? I load Doskey on bootup and it suffices
for what I do on the command line.
If you repeat the same long command lines frequently have you tried
committing them to batch files?
- Alan
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Alan Kong wrote:
> Dan, will loading Doskey do the job or do you require a more
> sophisticated keyboard buffer? I load Doskey on bootup and it suffices
> for what I do on the command line.
>
> If you repeat the same long command lines frequently have you tried
> committing them to batch files?
Using batch files is a good idea. In effect, this converts the
editor into a shell. Thanks for the suggestion!
But I will also try Marco's suggestion of jpsoft.... thanks!
Dan
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http://www.flash.net/~djconnel/
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On Sat, 26 Sep 1998 00:34:15 -0500, Dan Connelly <djc### [at] flash net>
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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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.
--
Ross Smith ....................................... Auckland, New Zealand
<mailto:r-s### [at] ihugconz> ........ <http://crash.ihug.co.nz/~r-smith/>
"Oh boy! Violence! Can't wait! Hey, sex is everywhere, but good
violence is hard to find!" -- Michael Thompson
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