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Date:	Mon, 16 Nov 1998 11:48:40 PDT
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Programming: More2QUEUE2,2Full2Disc

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dallasii@kincyb.com wrote:
>
> I ran into some other problems due to using PD Korn Shell as my
> commandline - first really tricky problem it's given me.
> As best I can figure, there were so many environment variables pointed
> at so many different shells, that some where along the way for the
> attempted pipe the shell got swapped and the fact that there was
> a pipe being processed seemed to get dropped.
> Also, START doesn't seem to like pipes for whatever reasons -
> DETACH seems to handle them more reliably from this environment.
> On one of the exploritory kludges, LineOut seemed to choke outputing
> a '|' character.

-and-

Steven Levine wrote:
>
> KSH is my preferrred shell under Unix and have I have the OS/2 version,
> but have never had the time to install it. The CMD and KSH delimiters and
> escape logic are so different, I could easily set confusion setting in.
> Were you just testing KSH does it do something special you need?

I'd _really_ like the two of you to discuss alternate OS/2 shells at a
Programming SIG meeting. I've written alternate shells but not for
OS/2, and I'd like to know what's available and why and when you might
want to change.

If you're willing to do so, maybe we can get Rollin to give up a few
minutes of his FTP Server time. :)

- Peter Skye

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