home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
- Path: sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!manuel!sserve!news
- From: wkt@rodos1.adfa.oz.au (Warren Toomey)
- Subject: Re: What shell can be installed on 286AT?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.235237.21070@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au>
- Sender: news@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au
- Organization: Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, Australia
- References: <1992Jul21.020308.14780@udel.edu>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 23:52:37 GMT
- Lines: 17
-
- From article <1992Jul21.020308.14780@udel.edu>, by Dennis Cheng-Zen Yang <dennis@solar.csie.ntu.edu.tw>:
- > Is there a shell better than sh which can be installed on 286 ?
- > Or I only ought to patch sh to having alias, history and cmd line editing ?
- > I, a Minix beginner, need your hacker's notes.
-
- I'd suggest the Clam shell (mind you, I helped write it), which has
- what you want. Ftp to plains.nodak.edu and hunt for the binary,
- clam-pc.bin (or some such name). A bug in Minix 1.5.10 prevents you from
- compiling the source (which is also available) under 1.5.10. Try also
- minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au.
-
- Warren
-
-
- Warren Toomey VK1XWT, on the path to insanity
- No longer in the bowels of ADFA Comp Science.
- `Version 7 Job Control: just use ptrace(2).'
-