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mirv · **Monad -** 22-06-2005

Monad being the name of the (still beta) new command shell microsoft is developing. Just thought I'd post a few thoughts on it.
Several standard shell commands appear to be present (ls, piping, "more", etc) which could see it starting to come into line with a more Unix approach. There's even support for "/" with reference to the top level of the current drive, though due to \ being used as a directory delimter in names, specifying a full path name is still a little different.
e.g:
cd '/Program Files' is used, not /Program\ Files
there's finally some tab completion of file names, repeated tabs cycle through anything that matches instead of listing everything. Tab doesn't complete executables in the bin PATH though.
Uses .net to run the command line, or so it seems, so maybe some nice eye-candy shells could be created for it too (a la Eterm).
Only been looking at it briefly, but still, seems microsoft is trying to make windows more unix-like in much of its functionality. Now if they could only use Unix sockets, I'd be set (though I like Linux more than windows, I still prefer any code I write to run across any platform).

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mirv Super Moderator Status: Offline Posts: 152 Join Date: Apr 2004	Monad - 22-06-2005 Monad being the name of the (still beta) new command shell microsoft is developing. Just thought I'd post a few thoughts on it. Several standard shell commands appear to be present (ls, piping, "more", etc) which could see it starting to come into line with a more Unix approach. There's even support for "/" with reference to the top level of the current drive, though due to \ being used as a directory delimter in names, specifying a full path name is still a little different. e.g: cd '/Program Files' is used, not /Program\ Files there's finally some tab completion of file names, repeated tabs cycle through anything that matches instead of listing everything. Tab doesn't complete executables in the bin PATH though. Uses .net to run the command line, or so it seems, so maybe some nice eye-candy shells could be created for it too (a la Eterm). Only been looking at it briefly, but still, seems microsoft is trying to make windows more unix-like in much of its functionality. Now if they could only use Unix sockets, I'd be set (though I like Linux more than windows, I still prefer any code I write to run across any platform). mirv the Silly Fish.