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From: jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Porting C News to MS-DOS?
Message-ID: <3499@epimass.EPI.COM>
Date: 4 Aug 89 16:12:46 GMT
References: <1143@mailrus.cc.umich.edu> <1989Aug3.235543.13996@utzoo.uucp>
Reply-To: jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck)
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In article <1143@mailrus.cc.umich.edu> mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst) writes:
>>At any rate, I am curious how difficult it would be to port C News to
>>MS-DOS.  I plan on using Turbo C 2.0, which is "mostly" UNIX compatable...

In article <1989Aug3.235543.13996@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>The C code may present some problems, but depending on how good Turbo C's
>Unix compatibility is, that might go okay.  The real problem will be all
>the shell files and all the references to sed, awk, etc. in them.

This still might be doable with MKS Tools, which provides the Korn
shell, sed, awk, and a hundred other basic tools for MS-DOS.  These
are the real thing, licensed from AT&T.  On those occasions where I
must use a PC with DOS, I'm glad I have MKS Tools available.
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