Date: Fri, 14 Oct 94 11:55:33 CDT
From: mmeyer AT rts DOT dseg DOT ti DOT com (Mark Meyer)
To: turnbull AT shako DOT sk DOT tsukuba DOT ac DOT jp
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: Definitive GNU fileutils ports


> and MS_SH 2 (fairly early version) wouldn't handle it in
> real mode and bombed in protected mode.) 

	By "it" do you mean compiling the fileutils?

	When you say "fairly early version" are you implying there's a
more recent version of sh?  I'm using 1.6 now, and I haven't tried 2.0
yet, but I would like to know if there's anything newer.

	Just imagine me with "NEWBIE" stamped on my forehead. :-)

> Eric tried to be a lot more intelligent about text/binary.  There was
> [sic] in Taiwan ported them.  

	Oops - missing text.

> The Backus ports were available from [slightly erroneous address rm'ed]

	ftp://ftp.math.niu.edu/pub/msdos/djgpp.stuff/fsf.ports/*.zoo

	There's a buncha zoo files at that site, but no sources.  Are
there sources anywhere?  Can I assume these versions of the utilities
take @response files?  

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Texas Instruments, Inc.,  Plano, TX                      +--------------------+
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