From: Dave Pearson <davep AT hagbard DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: The unix 'file' utility
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 10:34:16 GMT
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Darrel Hankerson <hankedr AT dms DOT auburn DOT edu> wrote:
> Dave Pearson <davep AT hagbard DOT demon DOT co DOT uk> writes:
> 
> > These days, thanks to DJGPP and the port of the GNU utils that have
> > been done with it, I've managed to do away with just about every 16bit
> > clone Unix command. Just about everything is now 32bit and also
> > supports long filenames under Win95.
> > 
> > However, one that is still kicking around is the 'file' command. So, I
> > was wondering, has anyone ported this using DJGPP?
> 
> The GNUish project contains 16- and 32- bit ports of Darwin's `file'
> to OS/2 and DOS.  The 32bit port is for emx, but perhaps it will
> compile easily with djgpp. 

After re-reading what I posted, I've just realised that I was missing
out one important point. What I'm really after is not so much the PM
side of things, but support for Win95 long filenames while the utility
will still run under Dos.

I guess a re-compile under DJGPP is required.

> If you work on file, perhaps you would consider coordinating changes
> for djgpp, emx, and msc, so that all OS/2 and DOS users benefit.
> I'm willing to contribute testing and patches for emx and msc for
> OS/2 and DOS.

I may have a look at it, but I'm not so sure that I know enough to be
able to take on such a task.

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