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- README for the GNUish MS-DOS project.
- Copyright (C) 1990 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
- Last updated: 90-12-11
-
-
- The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is not directly interested in
- integrating or maintaining ports of GNU software to MS-DOS, because of
- limited resources. These activities take time away from finishing a
- complete standalone GNU, which FSF and many in the GNU Project
- considers much more important.
-
- However, Thorsten Ohl <td12@ddagsi3.bitnet> is organizing distribution
- of such ports and moderating the GNUish MS-DOS project.
-
- The GNUish MS-DOS subdirectory contains both MS-DOS ports of GNU
- software and MS-DOS replacements for non-ported GNU software, the
- collective whole being dubbed the "GNUish MS-DOS" project.
-
- When several ports of the same tool exist, one of them has been
- selected by the moderator of this project. This does not means that
- the selected port is the best possible, it means however that the port
- is quite good. Nobody should feel offended by any selection.
-
- Some tools are possibly dangerous if you do not thoroughly understand
- their usage (v.g. `rm -r *'). You ought to know what you are doing.
- YOU USE THESE TOOLS AT YOUR OWN RISK. You *were* warned!
-
-
- LEGAL CONDITIONS
-
- These programs are free software; you can redistribute them and/or
- modify them under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
- published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at your
- option) any later version.
-
- These programs are distributed in the hope that they will be useful, BUT
- WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY WHATSOEVER, without even the implied warranties of
- merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. See the GNU
- General Public License (the file COPYING) for more details.
-
-
- PROJECT MAILING LIST
-
- There is a mailing list to discuss these MS-DOS ports of GNU software.
- It is called info-gnu-msdos@wugate.wustl.edu. It is managed by an
- experimental Unix-based listserv program. Send the command:
-
- add info-gnu-msdos
- to:
- listserv@wugate.wustl.edu
-
- to become subscribed to the list. Send a message containing only
- 'help' to get more information about the listserv. Do not send these
- commands to info-gnu-msdos. They should go to the listserv address.
-
- The list is not moderated, not digestified, and open to subscription
- by anyone. Problems with the mailing list should be directed to:
-
- david@wubios.wustl.edu <David J. Camp>
-
-
- FTP ARCHIVE SITES
-
- There is currently no room on prep.ai.mit.edu to put these files up
- for ftp. If prep get more disk space, they might become available.
- The collection of programs known as the GNUish MS-DOS project is still
- available for ftp at the following addresses. Administrative contacts
- and upload directories are listed for the moderator's convenience.
-
- vulcan.phyast.pitt.edu [130.49.33.16], in pub/pc/gnudos.
-
- adm contact: Roberto Gomez <roberto@bondi.phyast.pitt.edu>
- upload in: incoming
-
- ocf.berkeley.edu [128.32.184.254], in pub/GNU/gnuish-msdos.
- sandstrom.berkeley.edu [128.32.234.18], alternatively.
-
- adm contact: Eric Ng <erc@irss.njit.edu> or <...!ucbvax!argon!erc>
- upload in: pub/GNU/uploads
-
- wsmr-simtel20.army.mil [26.2.0.74], in pd2:<msdos2.gnuish>.
-
- adm contact: Keith Petersen <w8sdz@wsmr-simtel20.army.mil>
- uploaded by: David Camp <david@wubios.wustl.edu>
-
- wuarchive.wustl.edu [128.252.135.4], in mirrors/msdos/gnuish.
-
- adm contact: David Camp <david@wubios.wustl.edu>
-
- funic.funet.fi [128.214.6.100], in pub/msdos/gnudos.
-
- adm contact: Petri Hartoma <msdos1@nic.funet.fi>
- upload in: pub/msdos/incoming
-
-
- SOURCE CODE
-
- Due to space considerations, only the patches relative to the official
- GNU source code (with the source code found on prep.ai.mit.edu being
- considered "official") and custom-written source code are provided.
- In order to re-compile the GNUish MS-DOS project on your computer, you
- need to first obtain the official GNU source code. GNU documentation
- (if any) can also be found within the official GNU source code.
-
- The Free Software Foundation has set up an anonymous FTP site for GNU
- software on prep.ai.mit.edu [18.71.0.38]. The distributions present
- on that machine are considered "official" and are the best ones to use
- with the GNUish MS-DOS project.
-
-
- EXECUTABLE CODE
-
- For convenience, ready-to-execute binaries are also provided for those
- who do not have the necessary compilers, or do not feel like using
- them. User documentation is usually not provided, at least for now,
- beyond the documentation provided in the official GNU distribution.
-
-
- GNUISH MS-DOS CONTENTS
-
- File Notes Description or official sources
-
- cpio11.zoo prep.ai.mit.edu: pub/gnu/cpio-1.1.tar.Z
- diff114.zoo prep.ai.mit.edu: pub/gnu/diff-1.14.tar.Z
- fgrep11.zoo prep.ai.mit.edu: pub/gnu/fgrep-1.1.tar.Z
- find12.zoo 1 prep.ai.mit.edu: pub/gnu/find-1.2.tar.Z
- flex236.zoo prep.ai.mit.edu: pub/gnu/flex-2.3.6.tar.Z
- futil14.zoo prep.ai.mit.edu: pub/gnu/fileutils-1.4.tar.Z
- gdbm14.zoo 3 prep.ai.mit.edu: pub/gnu/gdbm-1.4.tar.Z
- gnulib0.zoo 3,4 Port of usual GNU routines
- gptx01.zoo 4 Ask <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca>
- grep15.zoo prep.ai.mit.edu: pub/gnu/grep-1.5.tar.Z
- inden11.zoo prep.ai.mit.edu: pub/gnu/indent-1.1.tar.Z
- m4v05.zoo prep.ai.mit.edu: pub/gnu/m4.tar.Z
- make358.zoo 2 prep.ai.mit.edu: pub/gnu/make-3.58.tar.Z
- mkinf10.zoo 4,5 prep.ai.mit.edu: pub/gnu/elisp.tar.Z
- sed106.zoo prep.ai.mit.edu: pub/gnu/sed-1.06.tar.Z
- sort03.zoo 4 Future GNU sort, version 0.3
- swalib0.zoo 2,3 Swapping library from <td12@ddagsi3.bitnet>
-
- 1 use `zoo x//' to restore sub-directories
- 2 requires Microsoft C compiler at level 6.0
- 3 this is a source library, not a user program
- 4 GNUish, but unofficial or unreleased GNU product
- 5 includes both makeinfo *and* a stand-alone Info reader
-
- For those interested, the filename for each of packages is selected
- according to the following pattern:
-
- <radix><version><release>.zoo
-
- In this syntax, <radix> is a string of three to six characters to
- identify the product, v.g. `futil' indicates GNU file utilities.
- <version> is a series of one to three digits indicating the version,
- v.g. `14' for `1.4', 358 for `3.58' or `0' for non-released yet; the
- decimal point is not necessarily implied after the first digit. In no
- case <radix> and <version> altogether could go over seven characters.
- The <release> is nothing for the first edition in GNUish MS-DOS
- archives, but might be a single letter for subsequent editions, like
- `a', `b', `c', etc. in turn.
-
-
- FUTURE FILES
-
- The following GNU tools have already been ported to DOS, and will be
- added later in the GNUish MS-DOS subdirectory:
-
- bison chess compress [ce]tags gawk perl rcs readline
-
- The following replacement tools could be made available in the GNUish
- MS-DOS subdirectory, in the future:
-
- freemacs or jove no editor war, please :-)
- ms_sh162 waiting for bash :-)
- uxutl162 only some of them
-
- Work is being done for:
-
- tar
-
-
- README AUTHORS
-
- This README file has been written disjointly by:
-
- Thorsten Ohl <td12@ddagsi3.bitnet>
- Francois Pinard <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca>
- Eric Ng <erc@irss.njit.edu>
- Richard Stallman <rms@ai.mit.edu>
- David J. Camp <david@wubios.wustl.edu>
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- Franc,ois Pinard ``Vivement GNU!'' pinard@iro.umontreal.ca
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