Do you mean the links from my email?
I just clicked on them again from my phone, and the links work except the
ftp link. My phone doesn't like ftp, I guess.
On May 26, 2017 6:31 AM, "Mark Olesen" <markjole...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I was unsuccessful in finding any links that worked. Am I missing
> something? Did anyone have better luck?
>
> On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 1:35 AM, Steve Nickolas <usots...@buric.co> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 25 May 2017, Jim Hall wrote:
>>
>> Minibox is an interesting project, but I wonder why implement
>>> everything in one large binary, just to execute simple commands. I
>>> know you are mimicking Busybox (above). But on a DOS system, it seems
>>> very resource heavy to load a large exe that requires DPMI to do
>>> commands like: (from the README)
>>>
>>> beep
>>> cat
>>> cd
>>> clear
>>> cp
>>> date
>>> echo
>>> ls
>>> mkdir
>>> mv
>>> pwd
>>> rm
>>> rmdir
>>> sh
>>> time
>>>
>>>
>>> Wouldn't it be easier and more resource efficient to implement these
>>> as small, individual programs? "cat" is not a very big program, for
>>> example.
>>>
>>
>> This.
>>
>> There's an interesting parallel here, and I think this would make a
>>> good project for someone: Years ago, there was the "GNUish" project,
>>> which ported the GNU utilities to DOS. But eventually the project
>>> stalled. Before GNUish shut down, they reached out to me to mirror
>>> their files. You can find them here:
>>> http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/gnuish/
>>>
>>> Info here:
>>> http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/gnuish/gnuish.htm
>>>
>>>
>>> I think it would be great for someone to pick up the GNUish project
>>> again. Port the GNU Utilities (ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/) to FreeDOS
>>> using OpenWatcom, or DJGPP. This is likely challenging, as it will
>>> require creating wrappers for different functionality, workarounds for
>>> other functionality that doesn't (or can't?) exist on DOS, etc.
>>>
>>> *That* is something that would be really interesting on FreeDOS! We
>>> already have some Unix-like programs in FreeDOS (cal, du, bc, grep,
>>> sed, ...) and a few utilities exist at DJ Delorie's repo, but AFAIK no
>>> one has created a comprehensive update to GNUish.
>>>
>>
>> I think one of the last updates to GNUish was when I got a wild hair and
>> ported over a then-recent "cpio". That had to be around 2000...
>>
>> I've thought of doing something similar to GNUish using rewritten code
>> and/or BSD code but there's not much stuff that ports over without a lot of
>> rewriting, and back in those days I was a newcomer to C. Maybe I should
>> try again.
>>
>> -uso.
>>
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