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- From: alf@skid.north.de (Alf Hoheisel)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: More MiNT q's, Why not a
- Message-ID: <a7237395@skid.north.de>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 14:53:32 GMT
- Article-I.D.: skid.a7237395
- References: <A11614@HB.maus.de> <A11199@HH2.maus.de>
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- In <A11199@HH2.maus.de> Ulf_Moeller@hh2.maus.de (Ulf Moeller) writes:
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- >> 1. if you get MiNT (0.94) in binary form you find the mintshel.prg.
- >> It should be a shell. But when I try to do an ls, dir or pwd I
- >> always get the answer cmd exit with -33 or so.
- >> Do I need to get some utilities which should be put in a bin directory
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- >Exactly that. You should use the GNU file utilities (for pwd you only need
- >`alias pwd cd').
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- It is working under mintshel.prg but on any other real shell it will not.
- The following is working under the most shells also under mintshel.prg:
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- alias pwd 'echo $CWD'
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- Under ksh it will be:
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- alias pwd 'echo $PWD'
- alias echo 'print -r'
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