From: jstacey AT plato DOT wadham DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk (J-P)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: bash, dir, command.com and recompiling ls under Win98 using DJGPP
Date: 29 Oct 2000 10:50:51 -0000
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I am considering compiling `ls` using DJGPP under DOS for the following
reason, and was wondering whether this was ultimately doomed to
failure....

Being sick of command.com, I have begun the switch to bash[1]. I've
seamlessly grafted it ( :) ) into my DJGPP tree, and all seems fine, apart
from two things:

1. the Win98 MS-DOS prompt is awful. Any alternatives welcomed. A Windows
   equivalent of an xterm would be good!

2. more on-topic, `dir` seems to be part of command.com, so I can't do
   either `dir` or `ls`, which is a bit of a nightmare. Do I need to get
   the whole of Cygwin to get `ls`? Or, and this is where DJGPP comes in,
   can I recompile `ls` from source using gcc under Win98 DOS?

Any advice welcome.

J-P

[1] Some might wonder why I'm not using my Linux partition. This is
largely because I want to upgrade to RedHat 7.0, and to do so requires a
lot of spare time and will have to wait till Christmas!