Path: utzoo!censor!geac!aeshq!jim
From: jim@aeshq.UUCP (jim)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Wanted : PC utilities
Keywords: DOS needs help
Message-ID: <292@aeshq.UUCP>
Date: 19 Sep 89 15:26:08 GMT
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This has probably been requested many times before... but, I haven't seen it
in the few weeks that I have been reading so...  Please forgive.

I have been using HP-UX at work for a while, and when I go home I use my PC
compatable.  I don't mind DOS so much, it's just that I miss having the use
of some utilities.  It would be nice to have utilities like grep, wc, diff,
(un)compress, tar, make, du, mv (including dirctories), scrolling back the
screen, etc.  

Has anyone written or have programs such as these available to the public?

Maybe even a man pages program for these (and perhaps other DOS commands too).

I am running DOS 3.3 on a 286 machine and would love to make DOS a little
more fun.

I would check local BBS's but I don't have a modem :-( (That's worse than
having a 300 baud one (but not much :-), and friends don't seem to have any.

Any help in this quest is appreciated.

               Jim Roberts

P.S.  What was the result with the request not so long ago for a password
      system for the PC's that didn't allow bypassing through softdisk?
      I would love to find something like that in the public domain.

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