This directory contains the demo version of Hamilton C shell(tm) for
Window NT on the DEC Alpha AXP.


Hamilton C shell is a much more powerful alternative to the standard
MS-DOS command window on Windows NT and Windows95 and comes with virtually
all the day-to-day utilities most folks will ever need.  Careful attention
has been paid to making this the best possible product on Windows NT and
Windows95.  For example, even though it certainly provides all the power
(and much more!) of the original UNIX C shell, this is not simply a cosmetic
attempt to make Windows NT or Windows95 look more like Unix.

It is not necessary to actually install this package onto your hard disk
to try it out.  Simply type "demo" and you're off and running!  (Demo.exe
is a simple little "wrapper" that just sets up some environment variables
for the search path and screen colors conveniently for cshdemo.exe; its
purpose is simply to avoid forcing you to actually install the C shell
demo merely to try it out.)

Price, including shipping by air, is $350 in the U.S., $365 in Canada
or Mexico or $395 elsewhere.  On quantity 5 or more, there is a 5%
discound.  We also offer special discounts for resellers and educational
users.  We accept purchase orders from most U.S. organizations;
international orders must be prepaid in U.S. dollars.  We accept VISA,
MasterCard, American Express and Discover cards, bank wires and checks
drawn on a U.S. bank

Except for the addition of demo.exe, the license file and this readme.1st
file, the layout you see, including even the detailed release notes in
readme.too, is just what you'd see in the actual product version.  The
only other difference is that to keep costs down we've supplied the User
Guide in ASCII text and Postscript versions here; in the product, they're
supplied in a nice, printed and bound form.

The shell itself, in bin\cshdemo.exe, has been crippled so it will allow you
to type only 10 commands before it will exit but will let you run scripts
of any arbitrary length.

The utilities in the bin directory have crippled so they will only run when
invoked from the demo version of the C shell but are otherwise fully
functional.  All the utilities provide help screens if you start them
with the -h option.

The samples directory contains a number of sample C programs and C shell
scripts which we hope you'll find helpful in experimenting with the C
shell.

If you have questions or would like to place an order, we'd love to
hear from you!


Regards,
Douglas Hamilton
Hamilton Laboratories
21 Shadow Oak Drive
Sudbury, MA  01776-3165, U.S.A.

Phone 508-440-8307
FAX   508-440-8308
Email hamilton@bix.com
