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RE: 4NT vs. Bash (Was Re: problem with find/grep)


At Tuesday, October 12, 2004 1:08 PM, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> Properly TITTTLing...
> 
> On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, Daniel Miller (IMI) wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>> 
>>> I won't ask the implied "Why not use bash?" question...
>> 
>> Hokay, then I won't answer!!  I suspect this subject has been
>> discussed several times in the past here, if I recall past perusal
>> of the list... but there really *are* a few things that 4NT does
>> better (or does at all) as opposed to Bash. 
>> 
>> I'll admit, tho, that if I hadn't already paid for 4DOS/4NT (over a
>> decade ago, actually), I wouldn't buy it now, with Bash available
>>     for free... Dan
> 
> So, what *are* those things?  It'd be interesting to find out where
> bash is deficient, and what tools could be used in Cygwin instead...
> 	Igor

See http://www.jpsoft.com/
4DOS ver. 7.5 has just been released for free.  It is 16 bit and says that
it only runs on Win9x/Me, but I wonder if it might work in the NT DOS
subsystem.

These are replacement console shells for command.com or cmd.exe.  They have
a lot more functionality than the MS programs; I'd put them as a lot closer
to bash in functionality than command.com/cmd.exe.  in some ways they may be
more functional than bash, in others less.  I'm still at ver. 5.5 so I
really couldn't compare.


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