Date: Wed, 23 Mar 94 13:20:49 JST
From: Stephen Turnbull <turnbull AT shako DOT sk DOT tsukuba DOT ac DOT jp>
To: geno AT nevada DOT edu
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Line terms; UNIX v. DOS; opinions wanted (was: Info port...)

After seeing the traffic generated by what actually was a reasonable
suggestion, despite my "after a long day snappy answer to stupid
question"-style reply, I'm sorry I added to it.  ('nuff said.)
    Re. Shells for DOS.  There is a port of the Korn shell on Simtel
mirrors in the programming utility directory (usually
msdos/programming, I think) as ms_sh22?.zip.  There's an executable
archive and a source archive, I forget which is which.  There's a
real-mode version and a DOS-extended version.
    I can't get it to work right, but that's probably because I've
never used Unix shells much (and right now the system I work on has
Japanese man pages and the man page with MS_SH ain't great...).  It
seems to confuse the hell out of make 3.69 that comes with DJGPP, and
also Morten's gmake 3.70.  The DOS-extended version crashes DVX big
time.  Sigh.  But someone who knows what they're doing can probably
make it work right.  Me, I'm going Linux, I think.
    --Steve