On Thu, 12 May 2011 10:29:48 -0500, Kirk Wolf wrote: > >Agreed. ISHELL can be useful, but the name itself is a false assertion :-) > Does it preserve the environment (CWD, umask, variables, ...) between commands? And, of course, you can't put a command in background.
I've sometimes imagined Rexx as a shell language, but it has a couple severe flaws: o It allows function reference before definition, so a typo in a function name would cause the interpreter to swallow all input looking for the definition. o It lacks an Include, read, source, "." command. (Well I understand Object Rexx has one. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
