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- From: einari@rhi.hi.is (Einar Indridason)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
- Subject: Re: IS UNIX DEAD?
- Message-ID: <5577@krafla.rhi.hi.is>
- Date: 6 Nov 92 19:12:56 GMT
- References: <1cilaoINNpjm@haydn.crhc.uiuc.edu> <Bwsy4E.DJL@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> <1cn5jnINN823@alnitak.usc.edu> <15329@auspex-gw.auspex.com> <LIMES.92Nov5170030@ouroborous.eng.sun.com>
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- In <LIMES.92Nov5170030@ouroborous.eng.sun.com> limes@ouroborous.eng.sun.com (Greg Limes) writes:
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- >In article <15329@auspex-gw.auspex.com> guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris) writes:
- >| Microsoft (presumably you aren't counting DOS as "a system from
- >| Microsoft"):
- >|
- >| So are you saying that no flavor of Windows has a tool that pops
- >| up a command-line window?
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- >Microsoft Windows 3.0 and 3.1 have a way to pop into a COMMAND.COM, which
- >initially takes over the entire screen (ick) but which can then be turned
- >back into a window or iconified.
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- Yes, and how good that command line is! (NOT!)
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- The command line in command.com sucks, but it could be worse. It could
- _also_ be _much_ _much_ better!
- (think about it for a while... take the 'average' command line from
- sh/csh/bash/ksh/tcsh and you'll see that the command.com command line is
- just plain stupid!
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