Re: Win9x and Arachne ?
  By: BOB KLAHN to LEONARD ERICKSON on Wed Jul 16 2003 11:25 am

 > ...
 > 
 >  LE> BTW, if you want a command line, check out Take Command
 >  LE> from JP Software. Gives Windows a command line. :-)
 > 
 >  LE> I think http://www.jpsoft.com is the URL.
 > 
 >  I looked it up, and downloaded just about everything they give
 >  away. However, it does seem a bit expensive. $69 for a command
 >  line added to an OS you can buy for $100.
 > 
 > BOB KLAHN bob.klahn{at}sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn
 > 
 > ... "Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams
full-dazzling."
 
Maybe...  but those JPSoft command shells do give you everything that you need:
a history list, testible hardware variables, aliases, a fast and abstract
parser with a complexity the equal of the Berkeley shells.  If I had to use a
PC for any commercial task rather than just noodling around, then a JPSoft 
command shell would be one of my early purchases.  (I wouldn't have the time to
play "juggling utilities" like I do....)
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