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Nobody is going to port these out of the goodness of their heart.  
PDFTeX may already have a DJGPP port, but I am unsure.

On 10/23/2020 8:22 AM, vjp2 DOT at AT at DOT BioStrategist DOT dot DOT dot DOT com wrote:
> If someone who knows their way around make and compile of unix programs on
> DOS, please consider porting the following:
>
> MAXIMA (Symbolic Manipulation)
>
> R-language (statistics, aka R-console)
>
> Octave, Scilab or Freemat (matrix language)
>
> PDFTeX (Typesetting Markup Language, PDF standalone creator)
>
> I use a plain text Unix Bash shell ISP that has all of these programs without
> graphical components. I have a few legacy reasons to keep using DOS in some
> places, and this would be really nice, with all the caveats that is is
> obsolete and I am being an insufferable curmudgeon.
>
>