Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 10:01:40 +0200 (IST) From: Eli Zaretskii To: RoB cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: Help A NEWBIE? - porting tcsh to dos. In-Reply-To: <6d1qun$1o9$1@winter.news.erols.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Precedence: bulk On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, RoB wrote: > i'm very new to programming... second semester in comp sci. i d/led = > djgpp and some of its components... i see that i came with bash... the = > gnu shell. i was wondering what would it take to compile tcsh to dos? I would suggest to not do this. Bash has most of the features that tcsh has (like completion and history), and the DJGPP port is IMHO excellent. Being a new to programming, you will have an *extremely* steep learning curve to wrestle with before you could understand what the heck is the tcsh code about and how do you express it in DOS/Windows.