From: myknees AT aol DOT com (Myknees)
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Subject: Re: Can I try BASH?
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Date: 08 Jul 1998 00:41:08 GMT
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In article <3 DOT 0 DOT 1 DOT 16 DOT 19980707102044 DOT 1e3f478a AT shadow DOT net>, Ralph Proctor
<ralphgpr AT shadow DOT net> writes:

>Hello Eli:
>
>I have a good DOS DJGPP and Allegro installation that has been serving me
>quite well on my
>486DX2 66MH, but I have been wanting to try out BASH and see what it is like.

It is, like, really refreshingly nice. 

>Can I do this without messing up or corrupting my present DOS installation?

Bash is just a program.  It is pretty nice to everyone else in the system. 
Except that it puts .bash_history and _bashrc files in the root directories of
your drives (a small price to pay.)

>Can I have them BOTH?

Sure!  I've got both: a shortcut to bash and a shortcut to command.com on my
start menu.  I remember having to do a bit of learning before everything
started to work smoothly.  Some things are different, e.g., none of the little
batch files that I used from command.com to change to my favorite directories
did anything from bash.  You can read the documentation.

>Any comment you might make would be appreciated--and if anybody else is
>doing this I would feel better.

I hope you feel better!  

--Ed (Myknees)