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Re: looking for an old late 80's / early 90's msdos shell

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Rod Pemberton

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Oct 7, 2009, 3:39:12 AM10/7/09

"proteanthread" <rt...@rtdos.com> wrote in message
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> basically was source code to linux style commands with a simple pre-
> processor
>
> i think some of the filenames included
>
> cp.c
> mv.c
>
> wasn't very big

Wow, very descriptive of you... ;)

Well, the most common DOS shell is 4DOS, but I'm not sure if the commands
are Linux style...

I may have, but I don't recall ever seeing a shell with Linux style
commands. I do recall a few packages with them though.

The GNU-ish DOS project probably had them (long dead, correct timeframe).
These might be buried in an ftp repository somewhere. But, I've searched a
few times and haven't located them. They seemed to have disappeared after
the UMich DOS archives were taken offline.

DJGPP has those commands as their port of GNU fileutils package. DJGPP is a
C compiler for DOS using GNU's GCC and a custom C library. IMO, this is
your best choice. It looks like the current files are fil41b.zip,
fil41d.zip, fil41s.zip in the v2gnu directory. You'll probably have to
download them from a mirror.

I recall seeing a bunch of similar commands for DOS somewhere... Yes, the
DOG project.

2004 sources for DietLibc have them from a package called embutils. This
package isn't on the current DietLibc page. The files don't seem to be in
the current DietLibc package either. There is a embutils site. The
embutils package probably isn't ported to DOS

Bob Stout's Snippets seems to have some.

http://dog.sourceforge.net/main/docs.php
http://www.fefe.de/embutils/
http://www.fefe.de/dietlibc/
http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/dl/ofc/
http://www.snippets.org/

HTH,

Rod Pemberton

Bill Buckels

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Oct 8, 2009, 4:42:46 AM10/8/09

"Rod Pemberton" <do_no...@nohavenot.cmm> wrote:

>Bob Stout's Snippets

<snip>

Memories of Fido... problem with Robert is that he played favourites and
passed-up lots of good code from folks like me making snippets less
inclusive and robust than it could have been.

Anyway here's a shell...

http://ftp.kiarchive.ru/pub/msdos/unixlike/korn/

Assuming that someone actually remembers Korn (David) in this day of
Bourne-Again (Bash)...

Bill