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Re: OS/2 Wish List

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From: Cliff Nadler
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 14:28
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In <gershon.728114431@husc.harvard.edu> gershon@husc11.harvard.edu (Ethan Gershon) writes:
>Also:  A PM-based command line interpreter.  Like an xterm with scroll
>back and resizable windows.  Stdin/out apps (like copy, unzip, etc) would
>appear in the window, full screen apps (like TED) would have a fresh
>window set up for them.  Pull down menus would do useful things like
>command history, directory switching and searching, copy/paste, etc.
>(I realize this could probably be written by a third party, but it
>really seems like something that should be included with the OS (more
>than, say, the Tune Editor should be).)

Have you looked at PMREXX using REXXTRY.CMD? That will put you into a REXX
command prompt (where you can run any OS/2 command) in a PM window. You'll
have to put some characters in quotes (so the REXX interpreter doesn't 
misinterpret what you type in, but ...) like *,^,@.

Cliff Nadler
IBM Federal Systems Company

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      IBM Federal Systems Company
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From: cnadler@vnet.ibm.com (Cliff Nadler)
Subject: Re: OS/2 Wish List
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Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 14:28:51 GMT
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