Re: [Tutor] [OT] Shells

2006-03-07 Thread Simon Gerber
> It looks promising, although without good command line editing and the > ability to create active GUIs it will be limited. But then, you can't do GUIs > in > bash either... There's always Zenity. Which of course isn't a built in part of the Bash shell. But it does allow you to create simple GUI

Re: [Tutor] [OT] Shells

2006-03-07 Thread Alan Gauld
Hi john, > Agreed --- but the new Microsoft shell looks very interesting. > Ars has a good review of it here: > http://arstechnica.com/guides/other/msh.ars Nice heads-up. I hadn't heard of this before, despite reading several of the comics' views on Vista. It looks promising, although without g

[Tutor] [OT] Shells

2006-03-06 Thread John Fouhy
On 07/03/06, Alan Gauld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can't imagine life on Windoze without cygwin :-) Agreed --- but the new Microsoft shell looks very interesting. Ars has a good review of it here: http://arstechnica.com/guides/other/msh.ars It borrows from all over the place, including Perl,