Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 08:33:10 +0300 (IDT)
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Subject: Re: Environment variables, and command line option's.
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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.