Hi Gregory,

> be easier if I started from scratch because I had a lot of low-hanging
> fruit to throw in. Seeing that MS-DOS was vaguely Unix... Otherwise,
> we would have a half-assed implementation, and nobody wants that.

Well in that case you probably want a DJGPP style port of the original
catgets library. DOS is not Unix like - it is the strength of DOS that
it is NOT Unix actually - but GNUish things like DJGPP, MinGW and CygWin
are available for platforms including DOS for those who do want to do
things "the Unix way". And they are welcome to use them, as long as they
do not want the DOS kernel to implement the Linux kernel ;-) I myself
will probably continue using kitten for DOS specific apps, simply because
it is a small and lightweight i18n tool that fits in the style of DOS
and because the small DOS specific apps need little Unix portability.

Eric



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