BSD Ash-0.2 for EMX

Table of contents

• Table of contents
• Introduction to Ash
• Installing Ash
• Getting Ash

Introduction

Ash is a small shell which resembles the System V `sh'. Its power resides in its sized and its compatibility:

• It's over 80k (half the size of the Korn Shell), so it eats less memory when it forks itself to run other commands.
• It's sh-compatible, I can use it to run `configure' scripts, and as a complement to `make'.
• I maintain it myself together with Autoconf. This way I try to keep a `porting package' up to date -- whenever I find a new feature in Autoconf's scripts that confuses Ash, I put myself to work to fix it.

Installation

Ash is compiled with the EMX library and tools. It's a binded executable so you'll need to install at least the EMX or the RSXNT runtime environments. They can be reached both in Leo (ftp.leo.org, www.leo.org) and Hobbes (hobbes.nmsu.edu).

You should notice the following points:

• Ash forks itself to run commands. Thus Ash does not work on DOS: OS/2 or NT are needed.
• Ash should work with RSXNT but I could not test it due to the lack of an appropiate environment.

Ash may reside in any directory that is mentioned in the PATH variable.

Currently Ash is not configured to act as a login script, and there are no options to make it work like that. This means you don't need a .profile, but instead you should set all your environment variables, either in config.sys or in the command line, just before Ash is used.

Getting it

If you're lucky and I could find space enough to upload it, Ash should be together with these HTML scripts: this is the zip file (over 220k)

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