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- From: scs@adam.mit.edu (Steve Summit)
- Subject: any Mac shells out there?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.221310.26064@athena.mit.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 22:13:10 GMT
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- It may not be politically correct, but I'd like a simple
- Unix-like shell for my Mac. I've got a lot of little personal
- utilities that I'd like to be able to use on the Mac and which I
- could easily port, except that it's not worth giving them fancy
- GUI interfaces (they and I do quite well with a pokey old command
- line, thank you).
-
- The idea can't be too far out or politically incorrect, because I
- know that MPW comes with such a shell, and makes heavy use of it.
- (Obviously I'm not interested in something massive and pricey like
- MPW, or I wouldn't be asking here.) Has anyone written any
- rudimentary shells? I'd probably need source code, so I could
- spruce it up as needed (I've got Think C). I could definitely
- live with something small, buggy, and free rather than something
- big and polished. As long as the basics of invoking ("launching"?)
- other programs are taken care of (a wheel which I don't feel like
- reinventing), I could easily add any other features I might need.
-
- Steve Summit
- scs@adam.mit.edu
-