From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 27 14:39:09 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA14154 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 27 Feb 1996 14:39:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from ibp.ibp.fr (ibp.ibp.fr [132.227.60.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA14073 for ; Tue, 27 Feb 1996 14:38:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from blaise.ibp.fr (blaise.ibp.fr [132.227.60.1]) by ibp.ibp.fr (8.6.12/jtpda-5.0) with ESMTP id XAA09699 ; Tue, 27 Feb 1996 23:38:29 +0100 Received: from (uucp@localhost) by blaise.ibp.fr (8.6.12/jtpda-5.0) with UUCP id XAA07485 ; Tue, 27 Feb 1996 23:38:29 +0100 Received: (from roberto@localhost) by keltia.freenix.fr (8.7.3/keltia-uucp-2.7) id XAA00762; Tue, 27 Feb 1996 23:15:35 +0100 (MET) From: Ollivier Robert Message-Id: <199602272215.XAA00762@keltia.freenix.fr> Subject: Re: FreeBSD ports to NT (was Win32...) To: jehamby@lightside.com (Jake Hamby) Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 23:15:34 +0100 (MET) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from Jake Hamby at "Feb 26, 96 01:08:05 pm" X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT ctm#1688 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL7 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk It seems that Jake Hamby said: > My plan is this: Instead of porting programs like cp, cat, mv, or vi, > which all have perfectly good Windows equivalents, slavishly following > Unix semantics, and limiting oneself to Console apps, why not port > programs that DON'T have good Windows equivalents, such as sed, awk, > tcsh, fortune, sup, CVS, and the like? These programs should work with Just have a look at Cygnus' NT development kit which already most of what you need. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 2.2-CURRENT #1: Tue Feb 20 01:16:51 MET 1996