#: 8056 S15/Hot Topics
    07-Nov-90  07:44:51
Sb: #8015-OSK Software
Fm: Jay Truesdale 72176,3565
To: Mark Wuest 74030,332 (X)


Mark,

Using the "DO" command processor that comes with the Pan Utilities (from Delmar
or Windsor Systems) in your .login file might be able to do the same thing as
the more intelligent shells as DO can access the environment variables.

On second thought, maybe not as it would probably be run in a sub-shell and so
the changes to the environment might not make it back to the parent?

Any way the thought ocurred to me that perhaps MW wants to keep the shell 'lean
and mean' for imbedded applications, etc. which is what OS9 was meant for in
the first place.  Maybe they should have two versions, one for development
systems and one for imbedding in systems?

I considered 'zsh' and alternatives but never made the time to follow up on
them, especially since we got 'do' with the Pan Utilities.

-J