Date: Tue, 10 Mar 92 08:41:15 EST
From: dogwood!francis AT gatech DOT edu (John Stracke)
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: listing of ported software
Status: O


>Unless you have fork/exec I see little chance to port bash.

Well, I'm not even going to try the multitasking.  :-)

My main reasons for wanting a DOS bash are command history and real
wildcards.  (The bit on comp.os.msdos.programmer about *b.* was what
made me think of it, actually.) Other things will be nice, but those
are my main aggravations with COMMAND.COM.

I expect I'll have to write something like exec(), since (as far as I
know) all we have in djgpp is system(), which would be problematic,
since it's supposed to call the shell to interpret the line.  ;-)

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