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From: gary@grce.UUCP (Gary Sutcliffe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: UNIX commands
Keywords: UNIX
Message-ID: <189@grce.UUCP>
Date: 5 Jun 90 14:19:15 GMT
References: <4282@castle.ed.ac.uk> <954@ashton.UUCP>
Reply-To: gary@grce.UUCP (Gary Sutcliffe)
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>In article <4282@castle.ed.ac.uk> elee24@castle.ed.ac.uk (H Bruce) writes:
>>I am looking for MS-DOS implementations of some UNIX commands.
>>grep and find are the two most important ones.
>>I see that SIMTEL20 has a large selection of "find like" programs
>>but few "grep" programs (DOS find with wild card parameters would do).
>>Does anyone have any recommendations of good implementations ?
>>

An inexpensive source of UNIX type commands is the C/Utilities Toolchest
from Mix Software.  In addition to the normal commands, a Bourne-type 
shell is included.  The price is about $20.  Source code is available
for $10 for each of the three classes (text utilities, file utilites, the
shell).

The commands seem pretty solid, but I had trouble with the system hanging
with the df command.  Other than trivial scripts, I have not used the
shell.  For $20 it is definitely a good deal.  Now if it only included
vi. :-)

Disclaimer: My company bought this software - my only connection with
Mix Software.

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Gary Sutcliffe   W9XT
GENROCO International, Inc.     Slinger, WI  (414) 644-8700
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