CLI replacement/enhancer?

[KennyR]

Rob, Voytech & KennyR: You all say that because it came with OS39. You can come up with any number of excuses, but the previus statement remains true.

Wrong, I used VincEd long before OS3.9 came out. I'd never go back to KingCON. It's just too limited. Where's the background processes? Where's bg and fg? Why doesn't ctrl+z spawn a new console in the same window ? Why are ascii colours screwed up and why can't I set their pens? Where are all the window open parameters I need? All the special escape codes? The prioritised filename completion? The horizontal scrollbar?

Nah, no chance. KingCON is a kiddie tool.

[Karlos]

Booo! Rubbish! KingCON is the Don!!

/troll :lol:

[shaf]

I still use Wshell with WB 3.1. I here I doesn't work with WB 3.9 and is no longer supported.

I think Wshell is better than kingcon

Shaf

[voytech]

For a while I used sh (got GG installed, still have), but when I met VincED.. That's true, you need to spend some time to "get it", but after - I can't live now without it (and DopusMagII)

[Karlos]

So, anybody going to vote for the "Execute Command..." requester as a charming, if somewhat minimalistic dos shell ?

[carls]

Personally I use KingCON. I've tried VNC but didn't like it. WShell is commercial IIRC, but a friend of mine was always using it. I just thought it felt strange.

However, all three of them have tab completion and a scrollback buffer. That's what the original post was about so either of the three would work. But if those two things are the ONLY things you are after then VNC is overkill.

I'd also add a good shell-startup and some essential unix utils.

Even my WinNT cmd.exe prompt is useful after adding ls, cp, less, touch, cat, awk, grep etc.

[JetRacer]

@shaf: The same thing was said about KingCon. Have you actually tried it (Wshell+3.9)?

It may be a complete load of FUD. Because "not supported" can be enterpreted as "not included on the 3.9 cd-rom". And "not working" means "may not work", since nobody tested it.