Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site fisher.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!ulysses!princeton!astrovax!fisher!bae From: bae@fisher.UUCP (The Master of Sinanju) Newsgroups: net.micro.pc,net.micro Subject: Re: compiling UNIX utilities on your PC Message-ID: <52@fisher.UUCP> Date: Sun, 26-Feb-84 12:54:10 EST Article-I.D.: fisher.52 Posted: Sun Feb 26 12:54:10 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 27-Feb-84 04:19:07 EST References: <1328@druxv.UUCP> <607@orca.UUCP> Organization: Princeton Univ. Statistics Lines: 16The idea of porting UNIX utilities directly to the PC is, in addition to being illegal, very impractical, as the MS-DOS shell does not expand meta-characters. This requires you to add code to do this to EACH AND EVERY thing you bring over, unless you want to hack on COMMAND.COM (not a pretty thing). -- Brian A. Ehrmantraut Ad Maioram Gloriam Hasturi! {allegra,alice,astrovax,rabbit,sickkids}!fisher!bae