From: dfox@hip-hop.suvl.ca.us (David Fox) Subject: Re: Emacs 18.59.4 Problem? Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1993 03:51:51 GMT
: >that matter? MS-DOS's shell works. AmigaDOS's shell works.
: Coherent's shell is positiviely prehistoric. But in that it matches much of
: coherent - it works but it doesn't do anything fancy and won't run a lot
: of modern stuff. Most shells are broken somehow - VMS SH used to crash
: beautifully if you got a read wrong. BSD csh is buggy. In fact almost
: everything is buggy everywhere.
Not only is coherent's shell prehistoric, it even will _drop input
characters_ typed on the system console. I've seen this on a Coherent
4.0 system, which was a 386-DX (about 2x faster than my system, BTW).
This is hopeless.
BTW, command.com's less buggy - it even almost works - but it doesn't
have to do anything. :)
: Alan
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