DOS ain't dead

BSD alternatives to coreutils (Developers)

posted by Doug , 19.01.2014, 21:42

> Was just wondering if anyone (other than me) would be interested in this
> sort of thing.

Sure -- i'm always interested in new stuff for my fave o/s! :) Especially
if more DOS-like than the GNU utils (which tend to give me a headache).
However, i have minimal programming skills, so i doubt that i could
contribute much to development beyond testing.

> I've been working on porting some of them and some of the NetBSD and
> FreeBSD utilities to Windows. Don't think it would be that much harder
> to add DOS support.

Many Win9x command-line executables (and even some gui) will work in real
DOS with Japheth's HX runtime. Undoubtedly, pure DOS ports would be a
more-ideal solution (?), but HX-friendly ones could be a viable
alternative.

- Doug B.

Complete thread:

• BSD alternatives to coreutils - lmemsm, 19.01.2014, 17:32
  • BSD alternatives to coreutils - RayeR, 19.01.2014, 17:40
  • BSD alternatives to coreutils - Doug, 19.01.2014, 21:42
    • BSD alternatives to coreutils - lmemsm, 20.01.2014, 13:24
  • BSD alternatives to coreutils - bocke, 20.01.2014, 15:04
    • BSD alternatives to coreutils - bocke, 20.01.2014, 16:41
    • BSD alternatives to coreutils - lmemsm, 21.01.2014, 13:59
      • BSD alternatives to coreutils - marcov, 21.01.2014, 15:30
        • BSD alternatives to coreutils - Oso2k, 21.01.2014, 23:01
          • BSD alternatives to coreutils - Ibidem, 22.01.2014, 04:05
        • BSD alternatives to coreutils - bocke, 22.01.2014, 21:26
      • BSD alternatives to coreutils - georgpotthast, 22.01.2014, 08:18
        • BSD alternatives to coreutils - lmemsm, 22.01.2014, 14:33
        • BSD alternatives to coreutils - marcov, 23.01.2014, 21:33
      • BSD alternatives to coreutils - bocke, 22.01.2014, 21:45
        • BSD alternatives to coreutils - lmemsm, 23.01.2014, 23:25
          • BSD alternatives to coreutils - Oso2k, 24.01.2014, 01:28
          • BSD alternatives to coreutils - bocke, 14.02.2014, 02:59