[Coco] Silly question

[Christopher R. Hawks]

On Sat, 21 Dec 2013 14:59:35 -0500
"Bill Gordon" <cwgordon at carolina.rr.com> wrote:

> 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.

	With all due respect to Bill Pierce's answer...

	The standard shell he refers to is not included in NitrOS9. The
shell 'command' in the commands directories is shellplus (actually it is
2.2a that Bill recommends) merged with a bunch of useful commands.
Shell_21 as he points out, is not really for general 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
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> 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.
> 
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Christopher R. Hawks
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