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Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 11:40:01 +0100
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Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote on 14 September 2008 06:57:

> On Fri, September 12, 2008 9:38 am, R&D wrote:
>> I am deeply interested in implementing a simple
>> command interpreter in Windows XP platform as a part of my summer
>> project, so will you please give me some hint on implementing it.
> 
> I suspect cygwin will be of little use to you in pursuing such a goal.
> 
> You might start here, though:
> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/idx/shell.html

  And these two should be helpful with the parser:

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/utilities/lex.html
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/utilities/yacc.html

(Cygwin has 'flex' rather than 'lex' but it's largely the same thing).

    cheers,
      DaveK
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