The C/Utilities toolchest : productivity tools for the MS-DOS operating system.

CONTENIDO
Chapter 1. Installing UX-DOS 3
1.1 Installing UX-DOS on a Hard Disk 3
1.2 Installing UX-DOS on Floppy Disks 4
1.3 Installing UX-DOS Source 4
Chapter 2. Configuring your System 7
2.1 System Memory Requirements 7
2.2 Environment Variables 7
2.3 Expanding the Environment 8
2.4 The CONFIG.SYS File 10
2.5 Using a RAM Disk 10
2.6 UXDOSBUF and UXDOSINT 11
Chapter 3. Using UX-DOS from a Remote Site 13
INTRODUCTION 15
Chapter 4. What is UX-DOS? 17
4.1 What can I do with UX-DOS? 18
4.2 Why is the Output from UX-DOS so Terse? 20
4.3 What will the UX-DOS Shell do for me? 25
4.4 Why should I use UX-DOS 27
Chapter 5. So me Basic Definitions 29
5.1 What is an Operating System? 29
5.2 What is MS-DOS? 32
5.3 The UNIX Operating Systems 34
5.4 Varieties of UNIX Systems 36
5.5 How UX-DOS adds UNIX features to MS-DOS 37
TECHNICAL REFERENCE 39
Chapter 6. Introduction 41
Chapter 7. Using UX-DOS 43
7.1 The Available Programs 43
7.2 The Example File Structure 45
7.3 File Name Generation 47
7.4 Input Argument Processing 50
7.5 Remote Terminal Operation 54
7.6 Regular Expression Processing 61
Chapter 8. The Shell (sh) 69
8.1 How the UX-DOS Shell Works 69
8.2 Invocation 70
8.3 Exit Value 72
8.4 Prompting 72
8.5 Shell Commands 73
8.6 Control Structures 77
8.7 Internal Commands 83
8.8 The Environment 93
8.9 Parameter Substitution 94
8.10 Command Substitution 100
8.11 Blank Interpretation 101
8.12 Quoting 104
8.13 Input/Output Redirection 106
8.14 Command Execution 115
8.15 File Name Generation 115
8.16 Comments 116
8.17 Files 116
Chapter 9. UX-DOS Programs 119
Appendix A. Differences between UX-DOS and UNIX systems 309
Appendix B. Sample Login Files 327
Appendix C. Example Shell Scripts 335
Appendix D. Function List 341