Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 16:51:10 +0200 (CEST) From: Adam Szilveszter <sziszi@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu> To: "G. Adam Stanislav" <zen@buddhist.com> Cc: Alex Kapranoff <root@kapran.bitmcnit.bryansk.su>, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Newbie tip Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.990516163755.9448A-100000@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu> In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19990516092026.00960770@mail.bfm.org>
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> > Is there any shell that works similar to 4DOS? Just to stop anyone from > getting upset: 4DOS is NOT a Microsoft product - it was presumably written > to give the other OS the capabilities of Unix shells; I just have not found > the Unix shell with those capabilities yet. :-( Nor do the authors of 4DOS > have a 4Unix shell (and they do not give out the source code to 4DOS). Hi! Consider trying bash (the shell of choice for most Linux distribs) or tcsh, all of which are available in the /usr/ports/shells directory. These both have the functionality you mentioned and in fact work quite smilarly to 4DOS. There is also pdksh but I have not tried it yet. For a description of how to handle these shells see their man pages after install and also the book: A Comprehensive guide to FreeBSD available at: http://www.vmunix.com/fbsd-book/ On bash you can find info on many Linux sites as well. (I use bash but that's because I also have to work on Linux machines and it's more convenient that I can use the same features everywhere.) Caution: As many have said here already, don't change the root shell to anything other from sh or csh because that's a really bad idea. But feel free to try the others for normal users. I hope it helps. Regards: Szilveszter (aka CC the horrible) Szeged University Hungary To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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