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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
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Posted: Sun Feb 26 12:54:10 1984
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	The 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).


	
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			Brian A. Ehrmantraut

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