Hello John ,

>
> A standalone REPL on Windows is amenable to making the command prompt
> window's backscroll big enough, if needed, and then copying from it using
> the prompt window's mark/copy mode. A standalone REPL on MS-DOS is tougher.
> The only way I know of short of installing Windows is to redirect the REPL's
> output to a file, but then you'd have to interact with it blind, and since
> it has line editing on the prompt line, the file might have escape sequences
> and/or other cruft in it and need some postprocessing. It might be best in
> that case to create a text file with expressions you want to evaluate at the
> REPL, then run the REPL process with input redirected from this file and
> output redirected to another file, to get a clean output and not have to
> type blind. The downside is this isn't as interactive; you can't change your
> mind or decide stuff after seeing some of the results, but only after seeing
> ALL of the results and then altering the input file.
>

I want it to work as standalone REPL on MS-DOS. You said it is tougher,then
am hopeless. I don't intend to interact with log file(for now I don't have
that idea) , I would want to use it later for historical studies and may be
other things.
Could you give me a lead?

Regards,
Emeka

>
> I'd recommend against using a standalone REPL on DOS, or on terminal-mode
> Unix which is only slightly friendlier thanks to the availability of screen.
> Use a terminal emulator from a GUI desktop, if not an IDE.
>
>
> >
>

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