Re: GNO shell replacement for ORCA shell

[bazyar@teal.csn.org (Jawaid Bazyar)]

bird@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (j.l.walters) writes:

>I got GNO 1.0 this weekend and am in the process of integrating it into
>my system. It appears to be (almost) perfect as a shell/program
>launcher, however, I thought that it was supposed to also replace the
>ORCA shell. 

  In a sense, yes.  The structure of the GNO system is radically
different from that of ORCA; files do not correspond in any way shape
or form.  The ORCA system consists of a shell (ORCA.SYS16) and utilities
(prefix 6/ or 17/).  GNO consists of an operating system kernel, 'kern',
and a separate shell which is a utility (gsh).

>This leads me to two conflicting requirements:
> 
>1. GNO (per the docs) demands that files: kern, gsh, and gshrc all be  
>   in the same directory (and sorta imply/demand that the boot
>   directory should be the one.)

   Kern, gsh, and gshrc can be in any directory as long as they're
all together. This will change in GNO 1.1.
 
>2. ORCA demands that the shell program reside in: */orca/shell
 
>Question: How does one replace the ORCA shell with the GNO shell?

   The ORCA system can coexist with GNO; you cannot run ORCA from inside
GNO, but there's no reason you have to replace ORCA (unless you're
suffering from hard drive cramps).

>Kind Regards,
>-- 

>		Joe Walters att!ihlpm!bird, IH 2A-227 (708) 224-7189
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