category: command shells

`Description:`	These are the languages that treat bare words as programs to execute.

`Language:`	ERGO-Shell (a window-based Unix shell)
`Package:`	ERGO-Shell
`Version:`	2.1
`Parts:`	interpreter
`Author:`	Regine Freitag <freitag@gmd.de>
`Location:`	ftp://ftp.gmd.de/gmd/ergo/?
`Description:`	An ergonomic window-based Unix shell for software engineers. [Can one program in ERGO-Shell? --ed]
`Bugs:`	Relative path names are not expanded on the SUN 3 port, expansion ability on SUN 4 only on certain conditions.
`Requires:`	Needs X-windows (X11R4) or OSF/Motif (revision 1.1)
`Ports:`	Sun 4
`Contact:`	Dr. Wolfgang Dzida, GMD <dzida@gmd.de> or the author
`Updated:`	June 4 1993

`Language:`	es (a functional shell)
`Package:`	es
`Version:`	0.84
`Parts:`	interpreter
`Author:`	Byron Rakitzis <byron@netapp.com>, Paul Haahr <haahr@adobe.com>
`Location:`	ftp://ftp.sys.utoronto.ca/pub/es/es-0.84.tar.Z
`Description:`	shell with higher order functions builtin features implemented as redefineable functions
`Updated:`	April 30th, 1993

`Language:`	Korn Shell
`Package:`	pdksh
`Version:`	5.1.3
`Parts:`	interpreter, documentation (complete man page)
`Author:`	Michael Rendell <michael@cs.mun.ca> (maintainer)
`Location:`	ftp://ftp.cs.mun.ca:pub/pdksh/pdksh.tar.gz
`Description:`	pdksh is a public domain implementation of ksh88. pdksh was started by Eric Gisin based on Charles Forsyth's version of sh. It has since been maintained by John R MacMillan and Simon J. Gerraty and is currently maintained by Michael Rendell.
`Conformance:`	Only major feature not implemented (yet) is Korn's @(patter1\|pattern2\|..) style pattern matching. A few other things are also missing like trap DEBUG (see NOTES file in distribution for details).
`Bugs:`	should be reported to pdksh@cs.mun.ca.
`Restriction:`	none
`Ports:`	Most unix boxes (uses GNU autoconf), OS2.
`Status:`	active (missing ksh88 features being added, being made POSIX conforming)
`Support:`	pdksh@cs.mun.ca
`Announcements:`	posted to comp.unix.shells newsgroup (also, send mail to pdksh-request to be placed on a mailing list for announcements)
`Updated:`	December 22nd, 1994

`Language:`	Q (also small subsets of Common Lisp and Scheme)
`Package:`	Q
`Version:`	? 1
`Parts:`	interpreter, compiler framework, libraries, documentation
`Author:`	Per Bothner <bothner@cygnus.com>
`Location:`	ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/Q.*
`Description:`	Q is a very high-level programming language, and a test-bed for programming language ideas. Where APL uses arrays to explicit looping, Q uses generalized sequences (finite or infinite, stored or calculated on demand). It has lexical scoping, and some support for logical and constraint programming. The syntax was designed for convenient interactive use. A macro facility together with primitives to run programs is used to make an interactive command language with full shell features. The Q system is written in C++, and its run-time code may be useful to people implementing other languages.
`Ports:`	Linux and SUN 4
`Portability:`	Should work on 32-bit Unix-like systems
`Updated:`	June 7th, 1993

`Language:`	rc (Plan 9 shell)
`Package:`	rc
`Version:`	1.4
`Parts:`	interpretor
`Author:`	Byron Rakitzis <byron@netapp.com>
`Location:`	ftp://ftp.white.toronto.edu/pub/rc/*
`Description:`	a free implementation of the Plan 9 shell.
`Discussion:`	rc-request@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu
`Updated:`	May 26th, 1992

`Language:`	Korn Shell
`Package:`	SKsh
`Version:`	2.1
`Parts:`	interpreter, utilities
`Author:`	Steve Koren <koren@hpfcogv.fc.hp.com>
`Location:`	ftp://hubcap.clemson.edu/pub/amiga/incom*/utils/SKsh021.lzh
`Description:`	SKsh is a Unix ksh-like shell which runs under AmigaDos. it provides a Unix like environment but supports many AmigaDos features such as resident commands, ARexx, etc. Scripts can be written to run under either ksh or SKsh, and many of the useful Unix commands such as xargs, grep, find, etc. are provided.
`Ports:`	Amiga
`Updated:`	December 16th, 1992

`Language:`	ssh (Steve's Shell)
`Package:`	ssh
`Version:`	1.7
`Parts:`	interpreter
`Author:`	Steve Baker <ice@judy.indstate.edu> with help from Thomas Moore
`Location:`	comp.sources.unix volume 26
`Description:`	A unix shell with a lot of csh/ksh-like features.
`Ports:`	sequent, sun, next, ultrix, bsdi
`Updated:`	April 15th, 1993

`Language:`	csh (C-Shell)
`Package:`	tcsh
`Version:`	6.06
`Parts:`	interpreter, manual page, html manual
`Author:`	Christos Zoulas <christos@ee.cornell.edu>
`Location:`	ftp://ftp.deshaw.com/pub/tcsh
`Description:`	a modified C-Shell with history editing
`Ports:`	unix, VMS_POSIX, nearing completion: OS/2 EMX.
`Updated:`	June 27th, 1994

`Language:`	Z-shell
`Package:`	zsh
`Version:`	2.5.0
`Parts:`	interpreter
`Author:`	Paul Falstad <pf@ttisms.com>
`Location:`	??? http://dv.go.dlr.de:8081/pdinfo_dv/zsh.html comp.sources.misc (v43i089)
`Description:`	zsh is most similar to ksh, while many of the additions are to please csh users.
`Features:`	multi-line commands editable as a single buffer, variable editing (vared), command buffer stack, recursive globbing, manipulation of arrays, spelling correction.
`Ports:`	Berkeley-based Unix, SVR4-based Unix
`Discussion:`	zsh-request@cs.uow.edu.au
`Contact:`	zsh-list@cs.uow.edu.au
`Updated:`	July 13th, 1994

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