[ENH][GOODIE] CommandShell V1.3 (version 1.3 released)

David T. Lewis lewis at mail.msen.com
Sun Oct 21 14:45:24 UTC 2001


On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 03:39:20PM +0200, Karl Ramberg wrote:
> 
> 
> "David T. Lewis" wrote:
>  
> > The most interesting conceptual problem right now is how to do the syntax
> > for a pipeline of mixed Smalltalk and Unix commands. I have a working
> > implementation at this point, but there is a cognitive impedence mismatch
> > in things like "echo hello | stdout nextPutAll: stdin upToEnd ! ".
> 
> Maybe a little big project but a Smalltalk shell to unix would be cool.
> I read about the SmallScript project, maybe some ideas to pick up there. 

CommandShell is a "Smalltalk shell to unix" written in Smalltalk and
running in the Squeak environment. Are you looking for something like
this, but with no GUI? It would probably be easy enough to do, now that
you mention it.

Dave
 




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