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- # readme. - GNUish MS-DOS fgrep -*-Text-*-
- # Copyright (C) 1990 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
- # Copyright (C) 1990 by Thorsten Ohl, td12@ddagsi3.bitnet
-
- This is GNU fgrep version 1.1 for MS-DOS.
-
- 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.
-
- In addition, the makefile assumes that you have a copy of the gnulib,
- which contains ports of several general purpose (regular expressions,
- directory access, filename globbing, etc.) GNU functions for MS-DOS.
- You can get it from the same place where you picled up this archive.
-
- GNU fgrep is known to compile with Microsoft C Version 5.1 or 6.0.
- Reports of successful compilation by other compilers (and the
- eventually necessary context diffs) are very much appreciated.
-
- Note that the obstacks are *not* working yet with far pointers. If you
- want to use fgrep for larger keyword sets (>40) you need far pointers and
- have to use ordinary malloc (). We hope to fix this in the near future.
-
-
- 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.
-
- Thorsten Ohl
- td12@ddagsi3.bitnet
-