At uni i had a program that created a shell within windows to practise the command line interface.

Anyone recomend one?

ta

Si

 

vmware and an os

 

Cheers, will it work ok with 2k??

ta

Si

 

I think you mean this Cygwin

 

no, I didnt

I was offering si an alternative to dual booting... which will let him run a full os in its own window, either with or without network connectivity and even its own mac addr.

David

 

I didn't think you meant it, I thought that's what Si was after, however it's not substitute for a full OS, which he could do in VMware (and I myself have used often). For practicing a few shell commands VMWare is overkill, a small disk and installing on that would be cheaper.

 

ill let you off then

Yeah but if I hear another dual boot question...

David

 

No, wait, I was wrong, disks are bad, get VMWare and backup the disk image for when you break the OS

 

Dave,

so how about a dual boot and a how do I get my new soopa fast grapics card working in linux question

 

Should I use software raid to make Vmware quicker ?

 

I dunno, my brain feel like degraded RAID 5 right now, buuuuuuuuh....

 

I found VMWare sooooooooo slow, I was running it on an 1GHz Athlon with 1/2 gig of RAM, I just gave up and made a partition for Linux and a boot disk and its much better.

Gary

 

Cgywin i think is that i was Recommended to use by my Tutor.

just borne and Corn shell programming.

Anyone know if RCS is built in?

Si

 

Get a copy of Services for Unix (MS product). This gives you a couple of command line shells to play with.

Cheers

Ian

 

Bringing in the harvest then Si....?

Think you might mean Korn <sigh>


Jeff

 

id just got in from work, food on the brain

 

And Bourne.

Please sort out your spelling, grammar and punctuation, personally I'd be embarassed to post anything if I couldn't spell.

Steve.

edited a typo


[Edited by stevencotton - 9/19/2002 11:01:14 AM]

 

Good job i dont take the 'Net' seriously then isnt it.