Re: Ada.Command_Line and wildcards

[Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus@futureapps.de>]

On Sat, 2007-02-24 at 21:08 +0100, Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote:
> Markus E Leypold wrote:
> 
> > Exactly ... that is as defined. I take it you're not overly familiar
> > with the Unix shell?
> 
> Maybe what Georg et al really need is "dossh" and "vmssh",

I can only speak for myself, and I consider the Unix toolbox(!)
far superior to DOS cmd.exe with or without extensions.
This doesn't stop me from complaining. (Hey, my superiors
asked me to both write simple shell scripts, and provide
detailed error reporting by email. Two requirements not always
easy to reconcile.)

(For NT cmd.exe, you can actually write assembly language style
programs in .bat files, manipulate the call stack, and use goto.
It's fun, NT also comes with some POSIX programs like
findstr and pax, so basically there is a lot one can do,
technically... )


> Is that sort of like the DOS and VMS command lines?

No, scsh is a Unix shell merged with Scheme (Scheme48).
http://www.scsh.net/

Other interesting shells include rc (of Plan 9, flexible
pipes, BTW), and es (a "functional" shell with higher order
functions).

If you have an opportunity, install rc, 9term, sam, and wily.
It might change the way you look at OS interfaces, including
the way of working with text :-)