Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 16:36:02 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: jehamby@lightside.com (Jake Hamby) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD ports to NT (was Win32...) Message-ID: <199602262336.QAA03092@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.AUX.3.91.960226123745.5298D-100000@covina.lightside.com> from "Jake Hamby" at Feb 26, 96 01:08:05 pm
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> Furthermore, since they needed to meet UNIX semantics to
> qualify for POSIX.1, these programs don't interact well with native
> Windows: having to type / instead of \, case-sensitivity, and
> "//D/mydir" instead of "D:\mydir", while traditional for Unix, just seem
> awkward in the Windows environment.
Actually, you just solved a problem for me; I've been thinking about
poinding in some experimental syntax for a couple of things, and the
// POSIX escape is just the thing... 8-).
The FS call themselves don't care about / vs \ and the directory
lookup is case insensitive, so I don't know what you are seeing.
> Oh, and of course, these programs don't work under Windows 95...
Compliant Win32 programs will run on both systems.
> [ ... ] why not port
> programs that DON'T have good Windows equivalents, such as sed, awk,
> tcsh, fortune, sup, CVS, and the like?
CVS is already ported. There is a Windows95 (WIN32) client, and a
Windows NT server.
> "man": I plan to convert all man and info pages (with the help of Perl
> scripts, probably) to .RTF files and from there compile them to Windows
> Help files. However, they will retain the same format, and I'd like to
> write a wrapper "man" program which would automatically spawn WinHelp
> with the appropriate page.
Actually, I'd like to see a help file compiler and X and command line
readers for BSD. 8-).
Something like the SDK's HCW.EXE ("Help Workshop"). 8-).
> Shells: I'd like to see tcsh (primarily for interactive use) and bash
> (for interactive use and shell scripts). They should be able to spawn
> Win32, Win16, and DOS programs just like CMD.EXE..
Shells are hard; specifically, the interface to the DOS virtual machine
is a pain. All I can say is "good luck". 8-(.
Terry Lambert
terry@lambert.org
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