Qshell for iSeries

Ted Holt has worked in the information industry since 1981, primarily with IBM midrange computers. His industry experience includes the fields of manufacturing, healthcare, education, retail, and wholesale. He is the author of The MC Press Desktop Encyclopedia of Tips, Techniques, and Programming Practices for iSeries and AS/400, Complete CL, and Open Query File Magic. He lives in Corinth, Mississippi. Fred Kulack is an IBM developer who has implemented portions of many of the UNIX type API components on the iSeries. He has worked on Java and J2EE technologies like JDBC, the Java Transaction API, and WebSphere and was part of the team that developed the Qshell interpreter. He now helps large IBM business partners with architecture, porting, and performance related to their C, C++, Java, and J2EE applications. He lives in Rochester, Minnesota.

Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Running Qshell
Chapter 3: The EDTF Text Editor
Chapter 4: Scripting
Chapter 5: Parameters and Variables Defined
Chapter 6: Using Parameters and Variables
Chapter 7: The Exit Status and Decision Making
Chapter 8: Additional Control Structures
Chapter 9: The Integrated File System
Chapter 10: Input and Output
Chapter 11: Command-Line Arguments
Chapter 12: Commands
Chapter 13: Functions
Chapter 14: Path Name Expansion (Globbing)
Chapter 15: Signals & traps
Chapter 16: Archives
Chapter 17: grep Scan Utility
Chapter 18: sed Editor
Chapter 19: Writing Programs for Qshell
Chapter 20: Additional OS/400 specific features
Chapter 21: Application Development Tools
Chapter 22: Perl application development
Chapter 23: Java application development
Chapter 24: C/C++ application development
Appendix A: Summary of changes by release
Appendix B: Qshell vs. DOS