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In article <1992Nov2.180145.17070@opus40.ix.de> hm@opus40.ix.de (Harald Milz) writes:
>Queries for unix-style-commands for MSDOS have inspired
>me to initiate a public domain project for such
>programs.  There are several commercial products,
>though, but they have grown rather expensive. With the
>help of some ten experienced programmers, it should be
>possible to finish the project within half a year.

[rest of proposal description deleted]

>Please email directly (hm@ix.de) or advertise in this
>newsgroup. I'll summarize. 
>
>THANK YOU!
>
>Harald


Before re-inventing the wheel, you might want to take a look at what's
already out there...  I run Ian Stewartson's sh clone on top of DOS
with Peter Heitman's PiCnix utility set in /bin. PiCnix has almost
everything, and what it didn't have was easy to either download as PD/shareware
code (a unix-like calendar utility, for example) or write for myself (I wrote
my own mkdir and rmdir routines, something like 10 lines of code, each).

All the above-mentioned software should be available on SIMTEL20, or in
one of its mirrors (eg. wuarchive.wustl.edu). It's also available on BIX
and Compuserve. ms_sh comes with sources, and picnix can be registered
for $30, which gets you the sources (however, the material I have has
'88 dates in it, so I don't know if Heitman is still in the PiCnix
business - we'll see if my registration comes back in the mail... :-).

ps. There are also excellent implementations of compress, tar, sed, and
vi running around out there, too, not to mention the uupc mail/uucp
package for MS-DOS (all of which I have and use).



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