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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!fuug!prime!mits!paetau
- From: paetau@mits.mdata.fi (Rasmus Paetau)
- Subject: Re: Command Line Interpreters
- Organization: Microdata Oy, Helsinki, Finland
- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 21:23:57 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec26.212357.27923@prime.mdata.fi>
- References: <1992Dec25.224102.13174@prime.mdata.fi> <1hgspiINNmfi@golem.wcc.govt.nz>
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- In article <1hgspiINNmfi@golem.wcc.govt.nz> wells_s@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz writes:
- >Dunno about easy to use.
- >
- >> 2) Supports batch files
- >> 3) Supports environment variables
- >> 4) Has an efficient command set
- >
- >Everyone seems to like this UNiX thing. (Pointless really, buy a
- >WIMPS machine, then immediately stuff UNix onto it, and use it as default
- >but....)
- >
- >So, since you obviously don't want to use the Atari as such, why not buy
- >a UNix Machine?? (GEM programs don't usually work too well from CLI,
- >unless GEM is booted first, and then they have been known to complain,
- >although, not much 8-)
-
- No, that's not at all how it is.. I just want to use the CLI as a
- shell in a BBS system, and PCOMMAND that is there now isn't my idea of
- a great CLI. So I _DON'T_ want to use my atari any other way than it
- is, it's not even my machine I want the shell for..
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- > =============================================================================
- > | O O If I told you how much I needed this, | ||| |
- > | o I wouldn't have time to eat it. Zaphod B. | ||| TARI |
- > | \_/ Steve Wells - Wellington, New Zealand. | / | \ |
- > =========================WELLS_S@KOSMOS.WCC.GOVT.NZ==========================
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- | Rasmus Paetau (paetau@mits.mdata.fi) | I still believe in Falcon030 |
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