Suzy B Software 2/Suzy B Software CD-ROM 2 (1994).iso/mintprgs/mintbash/catalog.asc

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MINTBASH is a port of bash, the GNU Bourne Again shell, to MiNT. It's
essentially equivalent to the BSD version, right down to the (useless, on
the ST) check for new mail.
The following ST specific features should be noted:
(1) Searches for executable programs always consider the current directory
first; this is a bug that I introduced in order to provide feature (2) easily.
(2) Executable files with the "usual" extensions need not have those extensions
added, i.e. if you type 'ls' then bash will look for 'ls', 'ls.ttp', 'ls.prg',
and 'ls.tos' in that order in each directory on your path.
(3) The ".bashrc" file is called "bash.rc" on the ST. Similarly, the .profile
file is called "profile", the ".bash_profile" file is called "bash_pro",
the ".bash_login" file is called "bash_log", and the ".bash_history" file
is called "bash_his".
(4) Only some of the "ulimit" options are supported under MiNT, namely
the -d (malloc'd memory limit), -m (total memory limit), and -t (cpu
time limit) options; note also that -d and -m mean slightly different
things under MiNT than they do under BSD.
(5) There's a bug (?) in the job control feature such that if you run
bash from a program that doesn't know about job control, that program
will be suspended when bash exits. Use "fg" (or whatever) to start
the program again, or else never leave bash (half :-); I'm sure bash
could be used as a replacement for the MiNT init.prg).  Somewhat limited
docs and some online help (in other words if you don't understand BASH
already, you have your work cut out for you--get a UNIX book describing
how it works).  Requires that it be run from MINT 0.6 or higher (see
MINT09B in the UTILITYS catalog).
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