Date:	Thu, 13 Apr 1995 16:33:19 -0500 (CDT)
From:	Aaron Ucko <UCKO AT VAX1 DOT ROCKHURST DOT EDU>
Subject:	Re: Makefiles and porting unix programs
To:	leisner AT sdsp DOT mc DOT xerox DOT com
Cc:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Organization:	Rockhurst College; Kansas City, MO

>>> >> recommend getting Unix tools on dos (like the gnu fileutils ...
>>>
>>> Agreed...but there doesn't seem to be a good place to look...
>>
>>look in SimTel/msdos/gnuish for GNU fileutils, textutils, grep, emacs, etc.
>
>The point I'm making is it should all be in the same place...
>
>Until Steve did his ports, the gnuish stuff was ancient.
>
>Maybe we should re-port most of other gnu stuff onto djgpp...

This weekend has three days for me, so I think I may update my perl port to
v5.001; if anything else (preferably not too large) needs porting I may
have time for one or two more packages depending on size.

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