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Thanks for your comments, Gary and Bela. Bela: I use CED pretty heavily, and use SYN most often. I don't remember the context of my '$foo' remark. Anyway, an Amiga shell needs it. I will be posting a better shell, soon, unless someone else has already posted the Usenet MyCli. (haven't DL'd yet. What version of public domain CED do you have? Gary: I agree about the CLI problems, and the screwed up!x:ure of the CLI commands. All different, all obscure. Were you saying the '> prt:' I type is passed to the program in argv[]? ??? I've always been a bit miffed about Lattice changing argv[0] to "c", while we're at it. I remember seeing a shell of some sort that had the CTRL/F you mentioned. I think we could come up with a list of good features for a shell. Any one care to start a list? Another general question – how should we handle environment variables and paths? Should our shell constantly search logged drives with valid paths, and remember any possible programs/commands there? Boy, I hate to kludge up a nice OS like AmigaDOS CLI,but these things have to be done. 🙂 I've had more troubles with CLI / Workbench than anything else. Some documentation would hexxx help. Related question for this thread: How should Workbench level tools accept command lines? How would you implement 'grep' from the Workbench? 'more'? A print spooler? A RAM: disk icon that works? I'd like to get the name of a most recently selected icon, but have trouble with workbenchbase.h, but that;'s another story.