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This is a port of GNU Bash 4.1.17 to MSDOS/DJGPP.
Bash is the GNU Project's Bourne Again SHell, a complete implementation
of the POSIX.2 shell spec, but also with interactive command line editing,
job control on architectures that support it, csh-like features such as
history substitution and brace expansion, and a slew of other features.
DJGPP specific changes.
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- This port is based on the last port of bash to DJGPP (aka bsh205b*.zip).
- The most remarkable change for this port is that it uses its own pipe
emulation instead of using the pipe function provided by libc. This
is necessary to get the port working on plain DOS. The pipe function
provided by libc exploits features that are only available for the file
system of the different Windows versions and thus fails if used on plain
DOS. This has the consequence that no one of the existing bash ports do
work on plain DOS as soon as pipes are involved. They work flawlessly
on Win98SE, Win2K and WinXP.
- The port checks at run time if LFN support is available or not and
selects the file names of temporary files that are created accordingly.
- There may exist much more DOS specific bugs in this port that have
still not been discovered and that will be fixed as they appeare.
- The testsuite is POSIX centric and has not been ported. Currently
the port can only be tested by using it.
- The port has been configured and compiled on WinXP SP3 and Win98SE.
There is no guarantee that this may be possible with any other DOS-
like OS. Due to the use of long file names it will not be possible
to configure and compile without LFN support. The port has been
compiled using gcc346 and bnu2311b.
- The coprocess support and the coproc reserved word have been disabled.
This feature requires special pipe support and that may be implemented
in the future.
- To be able to build this port you may need to have LFN support.
- If NLS support is wanted, then the sources must be reconfigured passing
the nls option to config.bat.
As usual, all djgpp specific files (diffs, README files, etc.) are stored
in the "djgpp" directory. The sources have been configured to be build
in the "_build" directory. If for some reason it does not work for you,
delete it contents and configure from scratch again.
Please read the docs to become familiar with this product.
Here is an extract of the NEWS file showing the user visible changes
from the last port (GNU Bash 2.05b) to this one:
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The port consists of the usual three packages that have been produced
using djdev205 and can be downloaded from ftp.delorie.com and mirrors
as (time stamp 2019-02-02):
Bash 4.1.17 binary, info and man format documentation:
ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/bsh4117b.zip
Bash 4.1.17 dvi, html, pdf and ps format documentation:
ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/bsh4117d.zip
Bash 4.1.17 source:
ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/bsh4117s.zip
Send Bash specific bug reports to <bug-bash AT gnu DOT org>.
Send suggestions and bug reports concerning the DJGPP port
to comp.os.msdos.djgpp or <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>.
Enjoy.
Guerrero, Juan Manuel <juan DOT guerrero AT gmx DOT de>
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