Date: Mon, 13 Jun 94 08:53:54 JST
From: Stephen Turnbull <turnbull AT shako DOT sk DOT tsukuba DOT ac DOT jp>
To: philmo AT eskinews DOT eskimo DOT com
Cc: cbenson AT cmipss2 DOT retix DOT com, djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: The GNU fileutils.

Sorry about the last useless msg, I got some keyboard bounce (C-c C-c
is "send mail" in GNU Emacs RMail).

   From: Phil Mock <philmo AT eskinews DOT eskimo DOT com>

   On Wed, 8 Jun 1994, Colin Benson wrote:
   > I'm trying to build GNU Emacs for my PC. I've got djpp running
   > ok I believe. (Thanks for the port by the way!). I find that to
   > build GNU emacs I need sed, rm, mv and chmod. The first of these,
   > sed, I built ...

As long as I'm here, I'll give the information I know.
    These are available in two djgpp ports, one by Tuan Duang (I
think) at Academia Sinica, and the other by Eric Backus, which is
available at ftp://ftp.math.niu.edu/pub/djgpp.stuff/packages, or some
similar path at that machine.  You need a ZOO archive extracter, also
available there.  Some of Eric's ports have some problems with io
redirections (cat in particular does, I don't know about any others).
    There are also the GNUish ports, available at Simtel mirrors in
.../msdos/gnuish and at garbo.uwasa.fi, I forget exactly where.  Garbo
is the primary upload site for GNUish ports.

   Does EMacs need them itself or just the makefile?  If it's only the
   makefile, why not use del and move (or ren, or copy) and (I feel
   bad, the exact name escapes me) DOS file attribute command

You obviously haven't tried to build Emacs.  Emacs recursively invokes
make in subdirectories as I recall, and the makefile itself is huge.
Also, since the syntaxes differ, you can't just do a global replace,
and in some cases even a sophisticated alias facility like that of
4DOS is more trouble than getting the GNU utilities.