To: gwynn AT globaldialog DOT com
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 22:24:36 PST
Subject: Re: Bash and less questions.
Message-ID: <19961205.222525.12343.1.Praxis_Beta@juno.com>
References: <Pine DOT BSI DOT 3 DOT 91 DOT 961205005021 DOT 26200D-100000-100000-100000-100000 AT msn DOT globaldialog DOT com>
From: praxis_beta AT juno DOT com (Bruce A Locke)


On Thu, 5 Dec 1996 19:31:44 -0600 John Schucker <gwynn AT globaldialog DOT com>
writes:
>I am attempting to run bash, not as a DOS shell, but as a secondary 
>shell, from the DOS prompt.  I run it with:
>bash -login
>I have an /etc/profile file, which defines path as:
>PATH='.;'$PATH
>and has aliases for cls, md, rd, and info so it will automatically 
>come 
>up with the --speech-friendly option.  Here are my two problems.
>
>It runs fine for a while, and suddenly dies with a sigsegv and a GPF, 
>and 
>a nice stacktrace.  It seems to happen alot when I run qedit.  I have 
>about 2665KB of DPMI, and all of the virtual memory cwsdpmi can use, 
>since I have a 1.2GB drive.  So it's getting about 13200KB memory 
>total.  
>I thought maybe the heap value needed adjusted, so I used cwsparam to 
>double it from 128 to 256.  Any ideas as to why this dies?  
>
>Also, it will not seem to find a file, foo.sh, but it will find foo 
>and 
>execute it as a shell script, more or less.  I renamed man2txt.sh to 
>man2txt, and ran it on bash.1, and it worked fine from bash.  However 
>if 
>I do:
>q foo
>(in editor type)
>echo foo
>(save this)
>And then from 'bash$' type
>foo
>My computer locks with exception 6.  This happens every single time I 
>do 
>this.  I am using qemm 7.5, but since I am not using its DPMI server, 
>I 
>really don't see how it would affect anything.  Help?
>
>At the risk of having babbled enough already, I tried doing a make of 
>less.  It makes fine, but for some reason, I can't get it to use BIOS 
>writes as opposed to direct video.  I tried setting directvideo = 0; 
>in 
>both screen.c and main.c  I know conio.h said gppconio ignores the 
>value 
>of directvideo, but I thought that was for stuff in the gppconio.h 
>file?
>
>I also tried replacing all occurrences of cputs(foo); in screen.c 
>with:
>fputs(foo,stdout);
>but when I do a make and then do less --help or less less.man, it 
>still 
>uses direct video writes.  Since I'm using a screen reader, I could 
>really use something like the --speech-friendly option on info, and I 
>had 
>hoped after getting less working with BIOS, I would add such an option 
>to 
>it.  Any suggestions?
>
>BTW, if any configuration files, etc., are needed to help in figuring 
>out 
>these problems, please let me know, and I will provide them.  TIA.
>
>
>

I'm sorry to ask stupid questions like this but I have just completed the
process of getting a new e-mail account so I lost a few day's worth of
e-mail in the interm.  *8-)

My questions is:  

There is a BASH shell for DOS?
If so, why?  Just for the fun of it or is their a real need for it?

====================================================================
Bruce A. Locke
BRUCE_LOCKE AT JUNO DOT COM