Message-ID: <3D156C60.40608@attbi.com> From: oldCoder Organization: Programming and Network Administration User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011019 Netscape6/6.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Environment variables, and command line option's. References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 35 NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.128.41.67 X-Complaints-To: abuse AT attbi DOT com X-Trace: sccrnsc03 1024814167 24.128.41.67 (Sun, 23 Jun 2002 06:36:07 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 06:36:07 GMT Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 06:36:08 GMT To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Eli Zaretskii wrote: > On Sun, 23 Jun 2002, oldCoder wrote: > > >>>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). >> > > Bash is great, but some DOS programs cannot be run from it, > unfortunately. For example, 16-bit DPMI programs (the DPMI spec > prohibits mixing 16-bit and 32-bit DPMI clients in the same session) > and some other types of DOS-extended programs don't live well with 32-bit > DPMI environment. > > If you never need to run such programs, Bash is for you. > I did not realize this, so I guess I've never run into any 16-bit DPMI clients. Thx for the heads-up! BTW, sorry I responded to U via email the other day; I'm rather new to newsgroups and didn't realize that I was being notified of a new post.