Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 20:19:46 -0400 (EDT)
From: Pierre Phaneuf <pp AT 55-174 DOT hy DOT cgocable DOT ca>
Reply-To: pierre AT tycho DOT com
To: opendos-developer AT delorie DOT com
cc: -= ArkanoiD =- <ark AT mpak DOT convey DOT ru>
Subject: Re: The compiling tools
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On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, -= ArkanoiD =- wrote:

> > You hate Unix? Hmm... You'd hate what I did to my DOS! ;-)) Using bash as
> > default shell, using Emacs, and so on... :-)
> 
> Do you have bash for _DOS_? Where can i get it? I've seen one for Sux'95,
> and for Mustdie NT but i could not get one for DOS.. I have psh,a couple of
> not-very-cshellish csh's and ksh-style thing named ms-sh. Only unixlike
> shell for DOS i do not have and i know it exists (and i'd like to get it!) is
> MKS toolkit one.
> 
> btw i even do have /dev directory - and i still can't guess which library
> (i have my GNU tools compiled with it) recognizes files with one of undoc
> attribute bits set as character devices ;)

It's the DJGPP port of bash. It needs a DPMI server (which CWSDPMI can
provide), and otherwise runs on bare DOS. It's a direct port of the
original GNU one. Command-line completion and all. No job control of
course, it's DOS. You need the sh-utils to go with it, pretty much useless
without...

Pierre Phaneuf