Date: Wed, 27 May 1992 13:41 CST
From: DARREL HANKERSON <HANK AT DUCVAX DOT AUBURN DOT EDU>
Subject: GNUish (was Re: Trident)
To: jshumate AT logdis1 DOT wr DOT aflc DOT af DOT mil
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Status: O

Jason Shumate (jshumate AT logdis1 DOT wr DOT aflc DOT af DOT mil) writes:
>Speaking of the GNUISH project, I believe that it is dead.  The mailing list
>no longer exists and it's been years since any ports were done.  The GNUISH
>programs were compiled using either small or medium memory modules and people
>are always complaining that they can't use the programs because their input
>files are too big for the GNUISH utilities.  You might want to consider getting
>the GNU source code and compiling it yourself with djgpp.  It's usually not
>too hard to do.

To be fair, GNUish was a project to bring the GNU tools to 286 and 386 
machines. As such, I believe most of the software was very well-done. Interest
in GNUish has somewhat dimmed with the release of djgpp, emx, and OS2.
However, djgpp will not bring sh or shar or anything else to the 286 machines.

I mentioned GNUish for the info file, which can be a good place to start
looking for GNU utilities. Certainly, if you have a 386 or OS2, there are
perhaps better ports of the GNU stuff than GNUish. IMHO, the folks involved
in GNUish did a very fine job.

--darrel hankerson hank AT ducvax DOT auburn DOT edu