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In article <13920059@hpfelg.HP.COM>, koren@hpfelg.HP.COM (Steve Koren) writes:
> 
> Here are a few things that I should point out about SKsh 1.4:
> 
> 1) The "view" command requires that the vmagic: assignment point to the
>    view.magic file itself, not simply to the directory that contains the
>    file.  (Should I change this?)

Haven't gotten around to checking out "view" yet, Steve ... :-) ... but it'd
probably be a good idea to only require the assign to the dir.  Reason being
that with the assign to a *file*, it's locked (and therefore can't be edited).
I suspect that folks who choose to use "view" will need to fiddle the "magic"
a time or two to get it setup to their personal taste.


> 2) The new "cp" command has several known bugs, the most significant of

True, but at least you get error msgs out, so you know when it doesn't work
correctly ... and no data gets lost.  The *muchly* improved performance of
"cp" is *greatly* appreciated, BTW!!!


> PS - I'd like to hear from anyone who has used SKsh with AmigaDos 2.0 -
>      are there any problems?

Which brings up any of several questions (that should really be in a seperate
posting).  What are some of the more "substantive" changes in 2.0's internals?

For example, now that BCPL has been exorcized (to paraphrase Mr. Haynie), have
things like the abominable restriction of able to only pass a cmd string of
255 chars or less to Exec() been eliminated?  How about the task scheduling
algorithms ... granularity been improved?  Etc?

Now that non-disclosure's off, we want ... *information* ...

/kim   /\#6/\

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