Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 18:26:03 +0200
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
Sender: halo1 AT zahav DOT net DOT il
To: Raul Kompass <kompass AT rz DOT uni-leipzig DOT de>
Message-Id: <7458-Sun29Oct2000182603+0200-eliz@is.elta.co.il>
X-Mailer: Emacs 20.6 (via feedmail 8.3.emacs20_6 I) and Blat ver 1.8.5h
CC: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
In-reply-to: <39FC1965.5D4DC365@rz.uni-leipzig.de> (message from Raul Kompass
	on Sun, 29 Oct 2000 13:34:45 +0100)
Subject: Re: bash, dir, command.com and recompiling ls under Win98 using DJGPP
References: <Pine DOT SUN DOT 3 DOT 91 DOT 1001029140343 DOT 816B-100000 AT is> <39FC1965 DOT 5D4DC365 AT rz DOT uni-leipzig DOT de>
Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com
X-Mailing-List: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com
Precedence: bulk

> From: Raul Kompass <kompass AT rz DOT uni-leipzig DOT de>
> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 13:34:45 +0100
> 
> There are a number of utilities (txtutils, fileutils) compiled with
> MinGW. Do I have to invoke a DOS box to use them?

I don't understand the question.  What exactly do you mean by ``invoke
a DOS box''?

These uitilities are all non-interactive, batch-style programs, so
their Mingw ports are console applications.  As such, they need to be
run from the command line.

You could, of course, run them via START->RUN dialog, or via the START
utility, but you can do the same with the DJGPP ports.

> What is then the point to have them compiled in this other way.

If you need a Windows development environment, you want Mingw or
Cygwin ports.  If you want a DJGPP development environment, you want
DJGPP ports.  Don't mix them, because they don't mix well (for
example, the ways to pass long command lines are different, and the
tricks they employ to emulate Unix functionality are incompatible).
That's why you need a coherent set of tools.

> Or is there a bash for them, using e.g.  msvcrt.dll ??

I don't know if there's a Mingw port of Bash.  It would be a lot of
work to do such a port, so I won't be surprised if the answer is NO.