[Coco] Silly question

[Bill Gordon]

Well, the only shell I use is the one included in whatever distro of
NitrOS-9 I use. I'm concentrating on Gene Heskett's distros for now, cause
they have nearly everything I use.

I've successfully created a non-HDBDOS boot disk that will allow me to
access DriveWire. All I gotta do is figure out which descriptor to put in
the bootlist to have the ability to pr

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From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On
Behalf Of Bill Pierce
Sent: Saturday, December 21, 2013 2:48 PM
To: coco at maltedmedia.com
Subject: Re: [Coco] Silly question


Bill.... Shell difference?... A lot of code....
Seriously, I haven't used a standard shell since the arrival of the 1st
Shell+. Also, you should not be using Shell 2.1 (or is it 2.0?) to start
with. It's got a lot of problems unless someone has fixed them. If I
remember right, it assumes you need more memory and auto assigns more memory
to every program it runs. A lot of programs assign (malloc) their own memory
and this feature alone would make them crash with error 207. There are some
other problems as well. I have no idea why that shell was included in the
repo distros along with 2.2a.
You should use Shell 2.2a as those problems were addressed and more features
added. I've used this shell since the 90s (or longer, whenever it became
available on Delphi) and have had no problems.

Some of the things added to the newer shells are configurable prompts,
wildcards from the command line, better scripting (though some say they have
problems with scripts, I've yet to see them), and quite a few more features.
The docs to shell 2.2a are on RTSI and explain the additions in detail as
well as how to use them. I think the docs are in the repo as well.