Mail Archives: djgpp/2002/06/23/23:30:18
oldCoder wrote:
>
> Jason Hood wrote:
[snip]
> > If you're willing to try another command line editor, CmdEdit can do
> > this, as well as filename completion, brace expansion and associations:
> >
> > http://cmdedit.adoxa.cjb.net/
> >
> > Jason.
> >
>
> There's an even better 'command line editor,' and it comes with DJGPP:
> BASH (Bourne Again SHell). It's _far_ more powerful than any flavor of
> DOS box, especially when it comes to writing scripts (but I leave the
> building of executables, etc., to MAKE), and the only reason I can think
> of _not_ to use it would be the problems with Win2K/XP (which 2.0.4
> seemed to mostly clear up).
>
> Thx, Phil
I'm far too comfortable in DOS to use bash. I do use it to run the
occassional script, and to use backquote substitution (mainly to
compress the exes from new distributions).
Jason.
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