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- This diskette contains the shareware program Conch, an enhanced command
- shell for IBM PCs and compatibles running MS-DOS. The file DOCS.TEX
- contains the text of the Conch user's manual. It is composed in the
- form of source for Donald Knuth's TeX typesetting program. If you do
- not have access to the TeX program, you can:
-
- - get a photocopy of the manual from the manual belonging to the
- person who gave you the copy of this program.
-
- - print out the DOCS.PLN file on any 80 column ASCII printer. It
- is a copy of the manual with the formatting commands removed.
- The output won't be as pretty, but that's life. To print out
- the manual, use the command "copy docs.pln prn".
-
- - Buy a copy of the program from the author for $35. It will
- come with a hard copy of the manual.
-
- The program is provided with a range of buffer and stack sizes ranging
- from small (CONCH.EXE) to extremely large (CONCH4.EXE). The programs will
- use between 42K (CONCH.EXE) and 92K (CONCH4.EXE) of the memory available
- in your machine. This will reduce the amount available for running other
- programs in.
-
- The following files should appear on your diskette, showing the same
- sizes and dates.
-
- READ_ME This file
- CONCH EXE 31744 9-25-85 9:27p The program in different sizes
- CONCH1 EXE 31744 9-25-85 9:29p |
- CONCH2 EXE 31744 9-25-85 9:30p |
- CONCH3 EXE 31744 9-25-85 9:31p |
- CONCH4 EXE 31744 9-25-85 9:33p |
- DOCS TEX 45243 9-17-85 9:08p Documentation (TeX Input)
- CONCHRC 623 6-22-85 11:17a A sample initialization file
- DOCS PLN 35485 9-24-85 9:34p Documentation (Plain ASCII)
-
- If you have purchased the source code to the program, the diskette will
- also contain these files in the subdirectory SOURCE. Please remember
- that the source code is not shareware, and that you have agreed not to
- distribute the source code to any third parties.
-
- BUF_SIZE H 25 9-11-85 9:45p
- RSH H 2000 9-25-85 9:23p
- RSH C 21928 9-25-85 9:10p
- RSH_BUFF C 13108 9-09-85 10:44p
- RSH_ETC C 11541 9-09-85 10:41p
- REDIR C 9140 6-23-85 9:03p
- PIPENAME C 1156 8-22-85 9:34p
- JOHN C 7784 8-22-85 8:53p
- ANS_IO C 3831 6-23-85 8:40p
- LINEDIT C 4691 5-26-85 5:45p
- GETKEY C 1028 4-02-85 2:06a
- GETKEY H 277 6-13-85 9:15p
- MAKE BAT 202 9-11-85 10:26p
-
- These are the source code files which require the DeSmet C compiler
- to convert into executable code. The batch file MAKE.BAT contains
- the commands necessary to perform the compilation and linking. Note
- that the files pcio.o and exec.o are required from the DeSmet package.
-
-
- Notes on the Minor Upgrade from V1.00 to V1.01
- ----------------------------------------------
-
- The exit command will now work, even when included as part of a compound
- command group.
-
- Previously, if a token was composed of only a virtual device, any
- trailing backslash was removed so that things like "cd test:" would
- be evaluated properly. It now removes trailing slashes as well to be
- compatible with either switchar setting.
-
- Previously, if a command expanded to something starting with "command /c"
- the shell would move up a line before execution. This was done because
- the command.com supplied with DOS versions before 3.1 would throw in
- an extra newline when invoked this way. This made it prettier, but now
- the command.com in DOS 3.1 does not have the extra newline, so the
- first line of output will overwrite the command line --- ugly. This
- has been fixed by a test for DOS version number. In any case, if you
- want to stop conch from moving up a line, set your aliases to produce
- a specific reference to command.com, rather than letting conch search
- the path. i.e. use
- alias dir c:\command /c dir
- rather than
- alias dir command /c dir
-
- than letting conch search
- the path. i.e. use
- alias dir c:\command /c dir
- rather than
- alias dir command /c di