On 2/6/2023 2:03 PM, Rugxulo wrote:
Do you not understand that I see a lot of similarities between the two
OSes? Certainly they share enough for various ports of useful tools to
be made. It doesn't mean they have much in common, but I still see a
lot to learn from classic UNIX and the philosophy of some of the
authors and tools (as evidenced by my quotes from them). DOS is
"simple" (keep it simple!) but still useful (with the right tools and
the right ideas).
No, there aren't really "a lot of similarities" between DOS and
Unix/Linux. Some *ix utilities MIGHT be useful for the use on DOS, but
that doesn't mean by any stretch that things like "The Art of Unix
Programming" do make any sense on DOS. The main goal should still be to
program for DOS, not for Unix...
Jim's topic list mentioned Awk, Bash, C, Curl, Emacs, GDB, Grep,
Python, Sed, SSH, Vim, wget. (We have versions of all of those.)
In case you missed it, this was the whole list of possible topics from
the Open Source magazine, not a list of suggested topics in regards to
FreeDOS, as that was what Jim was asking in the subject of this thread.
And yes, an article, possibly a series of articles, about programming on
DOS, for DOS, will be forthcoming...
Ralf
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