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Re: Unix utilities available under DOS

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From: Stefan Kapusniak
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 00:00
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In article <57bebl$sc6$1@newnews.mikom.csir.co.za>,
mmoller@mmoller.mikom.csir.co.za (Michael Moller) 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.


 The Cygnus port of gcc to Win32, includes a bash port in the
 distribution.  But that may not be what you're looking for given
 that you'd need $$ MB of NT or Win95 to run it rather than DOS <g>

 I can never remember the url, something like:

 http://www.cygnus.com/cygwin-32


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Date: 1996/11/25
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