Mail Archives: djgpp/1992/05/02/19:06:30
> 1) The library sources are meant to be 'sh'ed in a unix environment.
> 2) By reading the thing, I can see that utilities echo
> (I have it ) and sed are required, and a shell.
> 3) I found sed at SIMTEL but no user documentation was included.
> 4) I found a unix-like shell at simtel, and tried to build the f2c
> library.
I'm not an expert at this. I've played with ms_sh (sh164), and it seems to
work with the few shells I've tried. Kai Uwe Rommel has been involved in this
(there is an OS2 version at hobbes.nmsu.edu), so I would expect it to be of
very high quality. I did have problems with subshells running in a dos box
under Windows. Many of the GNU stuff is at hobbes, and it would solve your
filename problem (provided OS2 is using HPFS).
> 5) It doesn't work. I suspect the error (cannot create file)
> is because the script was written for a machine with non-DOS
> filename conventions. I suspect I could modify it to work, but
> I don't know sed and have no manual.
> 6) Therefore I hied off to mit.ai.prep.edu for the GNU sed, hoping
> to extract the man page. (I have cawf from simtel.)
There are awf macros in awf.zoo which also seem to do a fairly complete job
of converting to man pages.
> The Problem -- I can't dump the xxx.tar.z files. I've tried djtarx,
> zoo.exe, compress, and tar from simtel, in various combinations.
> Could someone give me explicit instructions for unpacking the gnu
Let's suppose you have the 8+3 filename problem, and your tar.Z file is
filename.taz. Do
compress -d filename.taz
then
tar -xf filename.ta
GNU tar for DOS/OS2 is on hobbes in pub/os2/gnu (or some dir). GNU awk is
also at hobbes, and runs under DOS/OS2.
--darrel hankerson hank AT ducvax DOT auburn DOT edu
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