Mail Archives: djgpp/1994/10/14/02:08:21
First, a brief intro. I don't really know much about djgpp,
but I grew to hate COMMAND.COM, and wanted a more Unix-like interface.
I recently found the GNUish MS-DOS project and pulled off what they
had. The software seems pretty nice, but it _is_ old. There doesn't
seem to have been any activity in that project for a couple of years,
and that's a lotta microseconds! The mailing lists are comatose, too.
Then I heard there was some discussion over here in djgpp about file
utilities, so I hung around here for a while. When Eli Zaretskii
posted recently, it brought up some questions I wanted to ask...
>>>>> "EZ" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> writes:
EZ> There is a port of a (very old) version 1.4 of fileutils to
EZ> 16-bit Microsoft C compiler, by Thorsten Ohl as part of the
EZ> GNUish MS-DOS project.
This is what I have. Eli, are you using the GNUish sh
(version 1.64) as well? I've also heard mention on this list of go32.
What's that, and where would I find it?
EZ> There is also a port of Fileutils 3.2 to DJGPP 1.08 by Eric
EZ> Backus. I forgot where I got this one, but I still have the .zoo
EZ> archive.
Would it be worth my while to try to get this?
EZ> Does 4 years of everyday usage qualify as ``stress testing''?
EZ> Not a single complaint I have to report.
Well, I have a complaint. The last time I tried to rm a
number of files (y'know, 'rm sh*.tmp', that sort of thing), I got
bitten by DOS's 127-character command line limit. (God, what a stupid
limitation.) The docs for the GNUish sh say that it can be told which
programs can handle the '@' convention for specifying response files
as a way to get around the 127-char limit. I couldn't tell in the
sources whether rm had this capability. When I asked on
help-gnu-msdos, all I got was the sound of crickets chirping. Can any
of y'all tell me if I'm stuck with crippled command lines?
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