[315] in OS/2_Discussion
Warp's CMD.EXE
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (pshuang@MIT.EDU)
Tue Nov 1 00:19:50 1994
From: pshuang@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 94 00:19:11 -0500
To: goop@MIT.EDU
Cc: os2partners@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Neeraj_Gupta.OSBU_North@xerox.com's message of Mon, 31 Oct 1994 12:03:03 PST <"31-Oct-94 12:03:03".*.Neeraj_Gupta.OSBU_North@Xerox.com>
I hadn't really heard about new features of the command-line
interpreter for Warp (although I haven't been keeping careful tabs on
the new features lists). I will note, however, that I highly
recommend a product called 4OS2, from JP Software (which I think is
based in one of the towns near Boston). 4OS2 is one of a family of
products (4DOS, the original, and there's also a related product for
Windows and Windows NT users), which is nice since you can then get
many of the same enhanced features in both your DOS windows and OS/2
windows if you purchase the 4OS2/4DOS bundle (special pricing).
4OS2/4DOS provide a fairly powerful command history, tab completion on
filenames, additional batch file features which allow you to write
batch files that are as powerful as csh or bash scripts but less
cryptic, better aliases than MS-DOS DOSKEY, color coded directory
listings (by extension), a built-in LIST program (much better than
more although not as good as the popular LIST.COM), and little
extensions to many of the standard commands to make them more flexible
and powerful. 4OS2/4DOS are made available as shareware.
4DOS is available in wuarchive.wustl.edu:/systems/msdos/simtel/4dos/.
4OS2 is available as ftp-os2.cdrom.com:/pub/os2/32bit/sysutils/4os2*.
(I've registered MY copies.... :)
== Ping Huang
