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From: Steve Simon steve-nospam@sav...
Subject: [9fans] 8.5 for NT available ?
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 21:46:32 +0100


Hi,

Re NT sam extras:
The extras ls, cat, rm etc all come with the seccond release of SAM for
Win32 - fairly old now.
The exciting bit is rcsh.exe the RC shell. This is where I fall down, it
seems unusable as must
DOS/GNU etc commands hang when they exit. If you then hit close window they
return before the
exit now / cancel / wait a bit longer dialogue box appears.

I have to admit I am not a Perl fan but would be happy with awk and rc if I

could just get them to coexist.

Re 9wm + Sam -v- Acme/Wiley:
I never got into wiley or acme, I stuck with 8.5 and sam. 
I very happily used sam and 9wm and rc on Unix in my previous job and never
met any
problems with window placement which I prefer to be in control of.

-Steve