From: "Tim Bird" <tbird AT caldera DOT com>
Message-Id: <9703211649.ZM19227@caldera.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 16:49:24 -0700
In-Reply-To: "-= ArkanoiD =-" <ark@mpak.convey.ru>
        "Re: [opendos] Wishlist v2.0" (Mar 21, 11:57pm)
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Subject: Re: [opendos] Another wishlist item: GNU tools
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-= ArkanoiD =- wrote:
> > This still has the 64K limit, with PC-DOS 6.3, but filename.ext is left
> > intact.
> >
> Why no to use GNU sort instead of that? I wonder why _Open_DOS does not
> include GNU utilities..

I personally would buy a CD that was a "full" DOS distribution, with
- DJGPP (and associated libs and tools)
- GNU tools
- OpenDOS
- OpenDOS source
- a hand-picked collection of DOS freeware utils
- DataPerfect (I just found out a full version is available as freeware)
- networking tools
- integrated package management for all of the above (so I can pick
and choose which to install/uninstall)

However, I wouldn't download all this from an ftp site.  Looks like more
than a couple hundred Meg. to me.  It would be a seriously FUN package.

Please add something like "complete DOS distribution" to the wishlist.

Tim Bird