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Article #30621Re: gulam
From: Lee Dickey
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1988 06:04
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1988 06:04
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In article <8802041613.AA17044@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> nfrech@ALMSA-1.ARPA ("Norman R. Frech") writes:
>
>Greetings:
>
>I have been reading the net for a few weeks now and would like to get some
>information on Gulam. I am assuming this is some sort of shell but I don't
>really know. One person on the net stated gulam has commands like mv, df,
>and time. I use BSD 4.3 at work and that got my attention quickly. Is
>gulam similiar to 4.3 or am I hallucinating? Is it public domain and where
>do I get a copy? Any information would be appreciated!
>
I am also a BSD 4.3 user at work, and use Gulam at home on the ST and love it.
Just now, on the ST, I typed the two commands:
help > tt
sx tt # to upload to the unix system (built in x-modem
Not everything behaves exactly the same on Gulam. Prof. Mateti, the
author, has some ideas about consistency of syntax. For example,
In 4.3BSD csh In Gulam
setenv aaa "hi there" setenv aaa "hi there"
set bbb = "hi there" set bbb "hi there"
echo $aaa $bbb echo $aaa $bbb
It also has something called "ue" which is some flavor of micro-emacs.
It is NOT un*x, but it is a simple, expanding shell done in that spirit.
The electronic address for P.Mateti shows below, but the shell is
available from a number of bulletin boards, and from
LISTSERV@CANADA01.bitnet.
Here is the file "tt".
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
beta-test version 1.00.00.00 101887 of
yet another shell for atariST
(non-profit redistribution is permitted)
/gulam. Copyright = 1987 pm@cwru.edu
62 built-in commands:
alias dm endwhile help more printenv set ue
cat dirc exit history mson pushd setenv unalias
cd dirs fg if msoff pwd source unset
chmod echo fgrep kb mv rehash sx unsetenv
copy egrep foreach lpr peekw ren te which
cp ef format ls pokew rm teexit while
date endfor gem mem popd rmdir time
df endif grep mkdir print rx touch
programs accessible through hash table:
uudecode gulamend arc uud speak dcclock
more14 gulam uuencode uniterm ibmfmt cksm
test history gu uue stspeech dos
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!ljdickey From: ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (Lee Dickey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: gulam Summary: gulam is great Keywords: gulam shell unix Message-ID: <1417@water.waterloo.edu> Date: 20 Feb 88 06:04:51 GMT References: <8802041613.AA17044@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Reply-To: ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (Lee Dickey) Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 60