Date: Thu, 26 Mar 92 11:43:29 -0600
From: wfs AT nicolas DOT ma DOT utexas DOT edu (Bill Schelter)
Posted-Date: Thu, 26 Mar 92 11:43:29 -0600
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: shell
Reply-To: wfs AT nicolas DOT ma DOT utexas DOT edu
Status: O


Can anyone recommend a shell which is compatible with
djgpp compiled programs?

I would like to be able to do things like

system("(cd .. ; gcc -c foo.c)");

and such from a djgpp compiled program.   ms_sh161.zip as
distributed fails at least for me.  (I have XMS version 2.0, dos 5.0).

I would also like a shell that I could use with ndmake (make45.zip).
The latter seems an excellent make facility, but I would like to be
able to use conditionals such as
 if [ -f foo.c ] ; then .. ;fi

again I am having trouble with ms_sh161.zip, in that it crashes the machine
when used within make. 

A shell program compiled with djgpp would probably be ok.  

Bill