[9fans] what features would you like in a shell?

2009-03-31 Thread noagbodjivictor
hello, I'm a undergrade CS student doing a project for my introductory operating systems class. my team wants to write a simple shell from scratch. one idea we have found so far is the following. the shell will record all the programs it has run. whenever a program goes awry and is killed by the

Re: [9fans] what features would you like in a shell?

2009-03-31 Thread noagbodjivictor
it would be interesting to use something closer to regular expressions rather than standard shell globbing.  the challenge would be to avoid gratuitous breakage and yet allow the match operator to be much more powerful. thanks a lot for the reply. i got my hand of the unix programming

[9fans] looking for a project

2009-03-25 Thread noagbodjivictor
hello all, I'm interested in working on a simple project for one of my class (operating system). But we are required to turn in our project by the end of the semester (may), so basically nothing big. I have always been interested in Plan9 and have been able to run it on my Windows XP machine. I