Re: [MacPerl] A command line shell for the Mac ?

[pvhp@forte.com (Peter Prymmer)]

Neil Bauman wrote:

> On 8/17/99 at 9:58 AM, charles@irg.com.au (Charles Cave) wrote:
> 
> > Has anyone ever written a shell in MacPerl to emulate the Unix shell?
> 
> The FreeBSD from Tenon might have what you need. It comes with a few shells
> (bourne, c, others) -- I use ksh. Anyway, it can't read Mac directories
> directly, *I don't think*, but you could copy over your Mac directories into
> it's workspace and then quickly get the job done from there ...

According to Dominic Dunlop MachTen can access MacOS files provided
they are specified with paths like:

    //HD/Folder/SubFolder/File.ext

which accesses the MacOS file at:

    HD:Folder:SubFolder:File.ext

(I never bothered to ask what happened to a file or folder name 
with a '/' character in it).

IIRC MkLinux can access MacOS files too.

Tom Christiansen's unix reconstruction project was intended to provide
unix shell tools to non-Unix platforms such as the Mac running MacOS.
One would have to bear in mind that many folks who contributed to
that project never Mac-ified their code and it could use some careful
review.

Appropos another topic: is the MacPerl BOF going to happen Sunday?
I may make it to Monterey on Sunday.

Peter Prymmer


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