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Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 18:04:37 -0700
From: Nate Eldredge <nate AT cartsys DOT com>
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To: Weiqi Gao <weiqigao AT a DOT crl DOT com>
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Subject: Re: djgpp find OK?
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Weiqi Gao wrote:
> 
> Myknees wrote:
> >
> > Whoa.  That is so easy.  I'm surprised it's not a FAQ; I guess people who use
> > GNU find usually know about the DOS find.  I'd forgotten long ago.  Would it be
> > helpful to put a note about DOS/Windows find.exe in the .../findutil.41/doc
> > directory, anyone?  Mine was a silly mistake, but an easy one to make.
> 
> Well, this is GNU, a replacement of UNIX---piece by piece.  It is
> implied in the GNU manifesto that most of the programs replace UNIX
> commands, sometimes with exactly the same commnad name.
> 
> We DOS people had it easy, because there are a total of three DOS
> commands that clashes with GNU command names.
> 
> Can you find the other two? :)

I found nine, total.

Name		GNU version			DOS version
-----------------------------------------------------------
date		Print date in many formats	Show and set date
dir		Like `ls'			DOSish dir listing
echo		No limitations			Limited to 127 characters
expand		Convert tabs to spaces		Uncompress DOS file
find		Find files in directories	Find lines in file
join		Join lines of two files		Emulate directory as drive
mkdir		Takes /; can make parents	No such features
rmdir		Takes /; can remove empty dirs	No such features
sort		No limitations			Limited to 64K (!)

There are more if you count `bash' builtins, and more still with easily
confused names (i.e. `fmt' vs. `format' -- a bad one!)

At least for the Unix folks, the old command did something very close to
the GNU one.
-- 

Nate Eldredge
nate AT cartsys DOT com