Someone needs to say it:
Apple's MPW - Macintosh Programmer's Workshop - is a command line interface to the
MacOS. It does support commands like rm and ls with different spelling. Serious UNIX
users complain that it's not enough like a real shell but it's a whole lot closer than
the Macintosh finder and you can use switches in the perl command line. Changing
newlines to returns is a one line MPW script once you learn yet another syntax for
regular expressions.
With MaxOS exx coming around the corner the learning curve may not be worth it. But
then it is free and some of us pray that it will metamorphose into an optional shell
in exx.
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-> From the U S of A, the only socialist country that refuses to admit it. <-
