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In article <AGW.90Jan10121005@cs.cs.columbia.edu> agw@cs.columbia.edu writes:
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>In a previous posting, smsdpg!rht@uunet.uu.net (Randy Thompson)
>mentioned a csh-like command line interpreter for the Mac that ran as
>an application under MacOS.  He said that he didn't remember its exact
>name, but it was something like MacIDRIS.
>

MacIDRIS seems to be a product of Whitesmiths.  It is distributed by
Intermetrics, Inc, 733 Concord Ave, Cambridge, MA, 02138-1002.

According to the literature that I received, MacIDRIS is the only POSIX
compliant O/S for the Mac.  Here is a breif list of commands that it
supports (highlights only, the entire list is quite long):
	System Control: kill, nice, nohup, ps, sh
	Shell: cd, exec, if, umask, sleep, test, time
	File Utility: cp, chown, ln, ls, mv, sync, tar, touch
	Text Utility: cat, crypt, dd, emacs, grep, roff, sort, tee, wc
	User Utility: log, lpr, mail, passwd, su
	Terminal: cu, kermit, stty
	Development: cc, link, make, prof

MacIDRIS requires a Mac+ or avove, 1M RAM (2M with MultiFinder),
System 5 or above, and 5M on your hard-disk.

Their literature contained a lot of detail about the actual implementation,
and gave me the impression that you get essentailly a unix system, but
beware of the library--if the standard unix system calls are missing and
the standard library is different, it may be a non-trivial task to port
your favorite unix programs to MacIDRIS.

It would be interesting to hear from anyone who put down the $499 and
purchased MacIDRIS.

-john-

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