RE: Say Hello to IBM System i5

Forgive me Marty as I root around in my brain for old data.  IIRC, Unix OS's
can run multiple shells (C shell, Bourne, bash, Korn) and each shell is
different.  The syntax differences between these shells are pretty radical.
And then different flavors of Unix have different commands; not all Unix
variants share the same names for all utilities.

So I guess my point is that QShell is just another shell, and AFAIK the PASE
shell is actually much more compliant to other *nixes (I think PASE is a
POSIX compliant shell).

Anyway, just tossing in some random thoughts.  I pretty much stick with
QShell myself, I haven't done more than dabble about in PASE.

Joe

> From: Urbanek, Marty
> 
> As for the shell business, no, we don't let them use the PASE shells
> because our product runs under qshell and we want to minimize confusion.
> Whatever the developers do, we need to make sure it works in qshell, so we
> only show them qshell. In the long run, we may move to PASE, once Java
> goes there, and then we may switch to the opposite tactic.
> 
> In general, the UNIX people are somewhat comfortable in qshell. Perhaps
> too much, because what freaks them out is when they can't do things like
> netstat or df or look at "standard" UNIX config files (for networking,
> etc) or use the editors they are used to. The fact is that the underlying
> machine is not UNIX, and at some point they bump heads with that reality.
> But as for the general "getting around" type of things, qshell is a pretty
> good facade.