DOS ain't dead - BSD alternatives to coreutils

BSD alternatives to coreutils (Developers)

posted by bocke, 14.02.2014, 02:59

> > So basically you want to create a POSIX compatibillity layer on top of
> the
> > DOS?
>
> Not really what I'm working towards. If I wanted that, there's a musl port
> to Windows which will give a POSIX compatibility layer. I could just use
> it. From what I've read about it, it may be much better than the Cygwin
> alternative.
>
> I think Georg, Oso2K and Ibidem got the idea of what I'm trying to
> accomplish. So, if anyone's interested in discussing it further, feel free
> to e-mail me. Was just curious if anyone was already working along those
> lines or was interested in projects of that nature.

I'm sorry. I don't get you. I tought you meant DOS, but after some tought I am not sure if you meant win32 command line or a native DOS. Also I don't get what scope do you expect.

If you only want to port some Unix utilites, there are already working and functioning ports.

Win32: Microsoft's "own" SUA/Interix, Cygwin, Uwin, Gnuwin32, Unixutils and probably others. MinGW also includes some utilites based on an older version of Cygwin they call msys.

DOS: DJGPP has a nice collection of GNU utilites. FreeDOS server (and mirrors) also contain the older GNUish project. But there were also other collections. You'll find them if you search ftp servers for the mirrors of the dos shareware archives (unfortunately rapidly dissapearing). Some names are: berk, danix, dantools, diskutil, dosix, pcunix, picnix, unix4dos, unixlike, uutil, uxutils, etc.

Anyway DOS tools still work with 32-bit Windows. But don't expect them to work with 64-bit. Actually it's good they don't because people will stop calling Win NT+ command line "a DOS". I think it's worth it. :)

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