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- Contact: Brady Flowers For immediate release
- 507-388-7001
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- Oberon Software's FSHL Alternative Command Line Executive for OS/2
- Version 1.25 to be released April 3, 1992
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- Combined with IBM's powerful new offering, 32-bit OS/2 2.0*,
- this new release of Oberon's venerable product, FSHL, offers
- a number of exciting new capabilities for users who find themselves
- using the OS/2 command line at any time.
-
- FSHL (pronounced "F-Shell") is a long standing, OS/2 based
- product of Oberon Software's, having seen its first release
- under OS/2 Version 1.0. It is a "CMD.EXE enhancer", that is,
- it replaces CMD.EXE for most functions and enhances it with an
- extended set of options for creating command aliases, history
- buffer recall and maintenance, and batch file handling, plus it
- greatly extends the list of OS/2's "built-in" commands.
-
- New features:
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- File name completion on the command line.
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- Function key macros. Can be loaded from file or created "on
- the fly".
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- History buffers may be saved to and read from disk at any time.
- The saved history files are flat ascii text and may be edited
- with any text editor.
-
- More user control over the editing and history function
- keystrokes.
-
- * Initial insert mode can be set to on or off.
- * Partial command line recall can be accomplished with either
- the standard CONTROL+Arrow keystroke or without the CONTROL
- key at the user's discretion.
- * Both of the above can be set via a switch on the FSHL
- invocation line in config.sys or via an FSHL keyword on the
- command line or .FSH file.
- * Keyboard and environment settings are appropriately
- inherited by recursive and grandchild invocations of FSHL.
-
- New FSHL keywords
-
- * SAVEHISTORY, RESTOREHISTORY, CTRLSEARCH, FSHLINSERT, PFALIAS
- These all control the features just listed above.
- * PRTY (idle|normal|timecrit|foreground) commandline ...
- Sets the default priority for the task about the be
- executed on the rest of the command line.
- * WINDOW (min|max|restore|size|move|tasklist)
- Control over the VIO window in which FSHL is running for
- those times when you're just too lazy to reach for the
- mouse (or if you'd like to do it from a batch file).
- *INSTALLDLL
- One half of FSHL's powerful and accessible API. Allows
- third party developers and technically skilled users to
- write their own DLLs and install them into FSHL to
- create new "internal" commands for FSHL. Example code
- is supplied.
-
- Published Named Pipe Interface, the "other half" of FSHL's
- API allows programs executed under FSHL to determine that FSHL
- is the parent and, if so, allow commands to be piped back up
- to the parent invocation of FSHL. This will allow smart directory
- changers, and other programs which need to alter the parent's
- environment to work without resorting to kludges.
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- Support for executing DOS and Windows** programs under OS/2 2.0.
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- Fully tested under OS/2 2.0. FSHL will ship with both 16- and
- 32-bit executables to accommodate all OS/2 users running either
- version of the operating system. Registered users of previous
- versions of FSHL will receive automatic upgrades which will be
- shipped by the end of April.
-
- For product and pricing information, please contact Oberon Software
- directly.
-
- Oberon Software
- 518 Blue Earth Street
- Mankato, MN 56001
- 507-388-7001
- 507-388-7568 (fax)
- 507-388-1154 (bbs)
- GEnie: B.FLOWERS
- CIS: 72510,3500
- MCI Mail: oberon
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- * OS/2 is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corp.
- ** Windows is a registered tradmark of Microsoft Corp.
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