Date:	Mon, 16 Dec 1996 18:39:41 +0200 (IST)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To:	Bruce A Locke <praxis_beta AT juno DOT com>
cc:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: Newbie question: BASH as a shell?
In-Reply-To:	<19961213.162219.7927.2.Praxis_Beta@juno.com>
Message-ID:	<Pine.SUN.3.91.961216183736.18715a-100000@is>
MIME-Version:	1.0

On Fri, 13 Dec 1996, Bruce A Locke wrote:

> But when I try "ls" BASH says:
> 
> ls: command not found

`ls' is not a built-in command of `bash'.  If you don't have `ls.exe' 
somwehere along your PATH, you should indeed get the above response.  I 
suggest you download the DJGPP port of GNU Fileutils (v2gnu/fil313b.zip 
from the same place you get DJGPP) and install them.

> Is BASH meant to be used like a replacement for command.com or is it just
> like a batch file facility?

Both.

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