From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 3 16:34:39 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 352651065672 for ; Tue, 3 May 2011 16:34:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: from oproxy4-pub.bluehost.com (oproxy4-pub.bluehost.com [69.89.21.11]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F143B8FC14 for ; Tue, 3 May 2011 16:34:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 10345 invoked by uid 0); 3 May 2011 16:34:38 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO box543.bluehost.com) (74.220.219.143) by cpoproxy1.bluehost.com with SMTP; 3 May 2011 16:34:38 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=default; d=apotheon.com; h=Date:From:To:Subject:Message-ID:Mail-Followup-To:References:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To:User-Agent:X-Identified-User; b=A/tkLcKcBti9M1eYpenFjOmvkVrlXl2PRHEchnKD9TtXTbfISDyVbEfrq8w3bl1B8ZbKcTUf+wSo9gJsrHmjDE/OglwK/T+9oqIp66WseyUHkxmunHj0iX0VKkcA7uFN; Received: from c-24-8-180-234.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.8.180.234] helo=kukaburra.hydra) by box543.bluehost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QHIYX-0003rZ-6l for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 03 May 2011 10:34:38 -0600 Received: by kukaburra.hydra (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 03 May 2011 10:21:21 -0600 Date: Tue, 3 May 2011 10:21:21 -0600 From: Chad Perrin To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20110503162121.GH25377@guilt.hydra> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <000001cc091a$e041f380$a0c5da80$@com> <20110503024427.2c0ace89.freebsd@edvax.de> <4DBF556A.1010507@daleco.biz> <20110503094604.efec8f3b.freebsd@edvax.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="Yia77v5a8fyVHJSl" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110503094604.efec8f3b.freebsd@edvax.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Identified-User: {2737:box543.bluehost.com:apotheon:apotheon.org} {sentby:smtp auth 24.8.180.234 authed with ren@apotheon.org} Subject: Re: For My Edification X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 03 May 2011 16:34:39 -0000 --Yia77v5a8fyVHJSl Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 09:46:04AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: >=20 > There also is an additional tool called something like "Power shell" > (not fully sure, I'm not a "Windows" person) that is more like a UNIX > shell than CMD.EXE, which has its origins in the COMMAND.COM of DOS - > not the _real_ DOS of course. :-) It's *not* really much like a Unix shell, actually. For instance, it doesn't have the Unix pipeline (which cmd.exe *does* have). Instead, it assumes everything you'll be passing around in it is basically a serialized object in the tradition of the .NET framework. It is, in short, more of a glue code development tool for .NET developers than a proper command shell. You can abuse it as a command shell if you want to, but in my experience the REPL for the R6RS (Scheme) implementation called Ypsilon serves as a better command shell than PowerShell. --=20 Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] --Yia77v5a8fyVHJSl Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAk3AK4EACgkQ9mn/Pj01uKVXcACfZwW/QEBQFKfeJ42WSq3Ebqdc 2XgAoNhsecf8ylJ+wb5dKvMFMQ6L2PJL =0SLM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Yia77v5a8fyVHJSl--