A set of tools for augmenting basic Unix commands, using Perl and Korn Shell Introduction: The following is the User and Installation Guide for HotShell. Included are Software Requirements, Size, Permissions, and internal manual pages needed by end-users for using HotShell. For information on design aspects, see HotDesignDoc.txt, the design document for HotShell and its features.
Software Requirements: HotShell is meant to run on the Unix platform, and so, in order to invoke HotShell, the user needs to be running a common shell and know how to set the path to the HotShell directory to be able to call HotShell from anywhere. The most common shells are Bourne, Korn and C Shells. The installation guide below describes how to set your PATH variable in these shells. Moreover, since HotShell is written in Perl and Korn Shell, your Unix system must have Perl installed in /usr/local/bin/perl and Korn Shell in /bin/ksh.
HotShell comes with its own files for hprint and htalk, so
there is no need to have access to /etc/hosts and the global
printers.conf file. Standard Unix utilities are also required,
such as ls, tar, uuencode, mailx, etc. If when running
HotShell, you notice that one of the commands will not work,
try reading the man page for that command (all manual pages are
also listed below) and look in the SEE ALSO section. Often
times, there may be a basic Unix command that is listed that
you do not have on your system. If this is so, ask your
Systems Operator to install that command.
Size: HotShell requires 460K amount of space for the self-extracting installation file and about 212K amount of space for the HotShell directory and all file which will be in $HOME. So, the user should allocate about 700K for the whole process, and once the installation file is removed, HotShell will require about 300K of space to ensure that there is enough space for utilities such as hmail to store files. For more information on the installation process, see installation below.
Permissions: HotShell is designed to have read write and execute permissions for the $USER depending on the file type (scripts are executable and manual pages are readable. Write permissions have been maintained for developers). If the user, designated by $USER, installs HotShell in their own $HOME directory, they will have access to run all available HotShell functions and specifications.
Environment: The HotShell directory should be placed in the user's $HOME directory. Within the $HOME/HotShell directory, there are three other visible directories:
1. hcmds contains all HotShell-specific commands.
2. hdesign contains this User Guide and the Design Document
3. hmangs contains all manual pages for HotShell (see also
below)
Additionally, $HOME/HotShell contains the hotshell executable,
and all .hxxx files (.hothosts, .hotprinters, .htrash
directory, .hmail).
HotShell also has its own variables, as set up in .hotshrc upon
load-up (see hotshrc below for more details), and it gets
environmental variables from a built-in Perl hash, designated
by the system. However, the user can change the environment
variables. See the man pages for hotshell below as well as the
Help section for more details on setting environmental
variables.
Installation of HotShell The HotShell command, heds, was used to mail HotShell to you. See heds below for more information on distributing this package to others. You may remember that the attached file also had an installation description at the beginning of it. Details are in the User Document.
For instructions on how to run HotShell as well as
a tutorial, there is a User Guide, HotUserDoc.txt,
in the $HOME/HotShell/hdesign directory. Also in
this directory is the Design Document, HotDesignDoc.txt,
for Unix tool developers.