Re: [Freedos-devel] announcing DOSUTIL - LS

2017-07-13 Thread Louis Santillan
Not to pooh-pooh what you've done, but maybe you'd want to explore something like suckless sbase [0][1], ubase [2][3], or toybox [4] or beastiebox [5]? With OpenWatcom and/or DJGPP, it shouldn't be as hard to port them. [0] http://core.suckless.org/sbase [1] http://git.suckless.org/sbase/tree/ [2

Re: [Freedos-devel] announcing DOSUTIL - LS

2017-07-13 Thread Mark Olesen
It is not a port. It is a 16-bit clone with a FreeDOS attitude weighing in less then 6K and pretty darn fast. I did it because it was fun. Whether or not it is useful is another matter. Porting Unix programs to a DOS based system is not that straight forward. DJGPP provides a bunch of wrappers to

Re: [Freedos-devel] announcing DOSUTIL - LS

2017-07-13 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 8:02 PM, Mark Olesen wrote: > > Just for fun, I created an LS binary for FreeDOS. > > It is hosted on github and can be found here: > > https://github.com/markjolesen/dosutil Cool stuff. Though I haven't actually run it yet (nor built atop DOS proper). Just a few tip