The links in the actual page route to simtel.net not
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/gnuish/
On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 5:39 AM, Jim Hall <jh...@freedos.org> wrote:
> 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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