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From: rkpc@mergvax (Rob Kedoin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Porting software to OS/2
Keywords: UNIX->OS/2, porting strategie
Message-ID: <10261@mergvax>
Date: 1 Sep 89 18:35:14 GMT
Organization: Linotype Co., Hauppauge NY
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Hello all!  I'm posting this article here since there isn't yet a
comp.sys.os2 :-)

I've been using OS/2 for a few months now, and have been hunting for
software in both executable and source form.  Now that I've accumulated
quite a bit of software, I've been thinking about some other tools that
would be nice for OS/2.

Since I like the UNIX tools, I have been wondering about porting some tools
from UNIX to OS/2.  I think it would be great if we could port some/most of
the Free Software Foundation's GNU software to OS/2.  I have Bison (GNU's
yacc) for OS/2.  

I am thinking of attempting to port Bash (GNU's Bourne Again Shell) to OS/2
and would like any advice for porting from UNIX to OS/2.

Thanks in advance,

		-Rob Kedoin

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