[Coco] Unix style Shell for OS/K and MM/1

David dbree at duo-county.com
Sun Nov 16 00:24:00 EST 2003


On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 11:03:43PM -0500, KnudsenMJ at aol.com wrote:
> OK, I dug out the Unix-like shell.  It's called "sh", is 48 KB long, and 
> according to Linux's strings utility was written in C and has quite a few options.
> Use the -h=N option to set the number of History command lines it will 
> remember.
> 
> My startup file uses
> sh -luh=10 <>>>/w6
> 
> The -l means "require Logout to exit" and is equivalent to the -i "Immortal" 
> Microware Coco shell.
> 
> (The OS9 "dump" utility will show you the strings too, if you're patient.  
> You can always tell C programs by the ***STACK OVERFLOW*** message contained in 
> them).
> 
> One error message is "Command line too complicated" so be warned.  I've never 
> hit it :-)
> 
> Date is 10/27/89 and author is "ram".  It seems to handle termcap settings.

I have sh75.lzh.  I got it off rtsi.  It's 77K long, and the create date
for sh is May 12, 1999




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