Date: Thu, 25 Aug 94 22:13:45 -0400
From: dj AT ctron DOT com (DJ Delorie)
To: saholmes AT crl DOT com
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: Compiling GNU's tar-1.11.2 with djgpp

> Too bad the generic gnu configure script don't work for DOS.

If you have MS_SH 2.2 and enough gnuish programs, you *can* run that
configure.  I've done it on my machine, and it works just fine
(assuming, of course, it's the standard autoconf script that most gnu
programs use).