Re: Unix utilities available under DOS

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From: Scott Telford
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 00:00

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In article <57bebl$sc6$1@newnews.mikom.csir.co.za>, Michael Moller
(mmoller@mmoller.mikom.csir.co.za) wrote:
> On this note: Has anyone tried porting bash to dos?  If not why not?
> I'd imagine that the executable would have to be smaller than 64k, but
> even a watered-down bash would be an improvement over command.com.

Rather you than me!

Howver there already is a free (mostly) POSIX.2-compliant sh for DOS
(and OS/2 and NT), and it's not bad.

You'll find it at:
ftp://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/computing/systems/ibmpc/simtel/msdos/sysutil/
ms_sh23[bs].zip

and other good SIMTEL20 mirrors, I guess.

-- 
Scott Telford, Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre,       <s.telford@ed.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: Unix utilities available under DOS
Date: 1996/11/25
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