DOS ain't dead - BSD alternatives to coreutils

BSD alternatives to coreutils (Developers)

posted by Ibidem, 22.01.2014, 04:05

> The suckless project has sbase. The rob landley had toybox (busybox
> replacement) and there was also beastiebox and some other small package at
> one time for use as a busybox replacement on bsd.

Though I do some work on toybox, I'd strongly recommend not starting there for DOS related projects. Toybox expects a SUS4 (POSIX2008/XSI option) development environment, and has several places where it expects Linux-specific features (well, BSD does some things similarly, but...).
Also, Rob Landley has specifically stated that he will not accept ports to various old platforms.

If any project in this area would be willing to consider a DOS port, I'd expect it to be Busybox; they have some support for newlib+libgloss already.

Also, I suggest that you not bother with sbase if you aim to get scripts working easily; it's a minimalist setup that does not support many options.

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