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- From: x91clifton1@gw.wmich.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: POSIX/U... for OS/2
- Message-ID: <1992Sep4.143852.5135@gw.wmich.edu>
- Date: 4 Sep 92 14:38:51 EST
- Organization: Western Michigan University
- Lines: 44
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- evanc@uuisis.isis.org (Evan Champion) writes:
-
- > I would really love to get a Unix emulator for OS/2. It would certainly
- > help me to run my UUCP/News setup!
- >
- > Another thing that I would like to see is a new HPFS driver that is more
- > like Unix, lets you use "/" and "\" when changing directories and is case
- > sensitive. The case sensitivity is partially there, with the file system
- > being able to record the case but not being sensitive to the case entered.
- > Another thing, why are there spaces allowed in filenames? I realize that it
- > is good in a word processor to be able to save a file as "Letter to Norm"
- > instead of "Letter.to.Norm", but spaces are a real pain when you have to do
- > file manipulation in CMD.EXE (having to "" everything). As above, any
- comment
- s
- > will be graciously accepted!
-
- 1. Using `\' or `/' is a function of the command interpreter
- ("shell" in Unix speak) that you are using--has little to
- do with the OS kernel.
-
- Solution: don't use cmd.exe, available now are 4os2 and sh
- on hobbes. 4os2 is similar to cmd.exe but with many
- extensions/improvements (although buggy). Sh is a Unix sh
- work-alike, again with improvements. Also, in the future
- we should see ports of other Unixish PD shells including
- tcsh, ksh and bash.
-
- 2. As for quoting command arguments, any Unix guru will tell
- you: get used to it ;-). Any time you want to pass arguments
- to a program that involve `funny' or shell metacharacters,
- they must be quoted or "escaped". Under Unix the escape
- character is `\', under cmd.exe or 4os2, it is `^'. Also note
- that a handy feature of 4os2 is "command completion"--typing
- an unambiguous starting portion of a filename followed by a
- TAB will complete the filename, if the filename contains
- spaces it will be automatically quoted. As an example of
- known bugs in 4os2, however, filenames beginning with `.'
- do not complete (are ignored).
-
-
- /Doug
- --
- Douglas Clifton [99clifto@lab.cc.wmich.edu]
-