X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org From: "Dave Korn" To: References: <48CA9B20.5050702@gmail.com> <52921.97.113.94.239.1221371806.squirrel@webmail.efn.org> Subject: RE: Cygwin Design Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 11:40:01 +0100 Message-ID: <02d701c91656$3db2b410$9601a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <52921.97.113.94.239.1221371806.squirrel@webmail.efn.org> Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote on 14 September 2008 06:57: > On Fri, September 12, 2008 9:38 am, R&D wrote: >> I am deeply interested in implementing a simple >> command interpreter in Windows XP platform as a part of my summer >> project, so will you please give me some hint on implementing it. > > I suspect cygwin will be of little use to you in pursuing such a goal. > > You might start here, though: > http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/idx/shell.html And these two should be helpful with the parser: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/utilities/lex.html http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/utilities/yacc.html (Cygwin has 'flex' rather than 'lex' but it's largely the same thing). cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/