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From: alanb@sdl.mdcbbs.com
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Subject: Re: UNIX*ish* Amiga software
Message-ID: <1991Jun21.152125.1@sdl.mdcbbs.com>
Date: 21 Jun 91 14:21:25 GMT
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In article <1991Jun20.093756.1638@wpi.WPI.EDU>, chrisf@wpi.WPI.EDU (Chris H. Foley) writes:
> Hi there folks. I'm amazed. I was just talking to a friend of mine who's an
> ST fanatic and he told me (and showed me) that they have BASH (a GREAT shell
> which would elevate the amiga to a new level of software development 
> compatibility), they've *HAD* GCC for about a year and we're just finishing 
> up versions of ours (the wilde port seems quite good), they've got G++, 
> MGR (A Multi Window communications protocol similar to DNET but *WITH* 
> GRAPHICS support!) and a Modified TOS called MINT which is a Unix subset..
> 
> 
> The reason I rattled all that off is NOT to make the amiga or the amiga PD 
> world look bad, I'm just wondering why more effort hasn't been put in to 
> developing these products... 
> 
> It's really easy to criticize and I'll be the first to admit that, but it's 
> just too bad that we're not up to par with what they've got over there on the 
> ST :)
> 
> If anyone knows of any completed versions of these or things like it/them, 
> let me know...
> 
> sincerely,
> Chris

Well, I was hoping to see how many of bash, flex, bison, gnuchess, perl,
gnuchess, ghostscript, emacs, and other gnu tools I have lying around
on my Sun at work would port once I find where to get GCC, so I'll let you know.

I've only just got an Amiga (1500), so don't hold your breath. (Might have to
wait for hard disk and more RAM for a start). I'll post any progress here (or,
more likely, requests for help). Anyone who already has these tools, I'd like
to know.

For those who don't know bash, it stands for Bourne Again SHell.

Compatible with the standard Unix Bourne shell, but with a lot more, e.g.
C-shell style aliases and history, login/out files, and ~ expansion,
help on builtin commands, functions, emacs style command line editing.

alanb@sdl.mdcbbs.com     Alan Braggins

P.S. flex - fast lex
     bison - yacc (but hairier)