From: MonkeeSage <MonkeeSage@...>
Date: 2007-12-04T22:00:06+09:00
Subject: Re: irb and unix shells

On Dec 4, 2:48 am, botp <botp...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/4/07, Giles Bowkett <gil...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Rush sounds exciting and fun, and has decades of drum solos to back up
> > its reputation. Wow! What a rush!
>
> i'd be more excited if the shell can run on windows, too. Unix shells
> are already very powerful. One can throw just about any language to
> it. A windows shell is wanting, and would be a killer app for windows.
> The command shell in windows is terrible; heck, i cannot even do a
> ctrl-pgup - grr!@#$
>
> kind regards -botp

OT: cygwin comes with sh or bash or some form of posix shell as I
recall, I think I also saw a native version of bash (but this was
several years ago). BTW, did you mean shift-pgup (scroll up) or is my
shell missing something?

Regards,
Jordan