On Tue, 13 May 2008, Eric Auer wrote:

>
> Hi!
>
>> just an idea came to my mind: you could make a freash port of those
>> common Unix utilities... IMHO it would be most welcome.
>
> I doubt that - disk space is not an issue today and MANY
> Unix utilities have been ported to DOS using DJGPP, the
> GNU C (gcc/g++) and LIBC for DOS, 32bit style :-). But
> we could check which ones are nice and not yet ported :-).
>
> Eric

I dunno, I for one would still like to see a good *free* Bourne shell for 
16-bit DOS.  I came close but failed last time.

(Ian Stewartson's shell is not open source as there is a "no commercial 
use" stipulation.)

-uso.

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