Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 15:33:38 -0800 (PST) From: Jake Hamby <jehamby@lightside.com> To: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD ports to NT (was Win32...) Message-ID: <Pine.AUX.3.91.960227152940.25917D-100000@covina.lightside.com> In-Reply-To: <199602272215.XAA00762@keltia.freenix.fr>
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On Tue, 27 Feb 1996, Ollivier Robert wrote: > It seems that Jake Hamby said: > > My plan is this: Instead of porting programs like cp, cat, mv, or vi, > > which all have perfectly good Windows equivalents, slavishly following > > Unix semantics, and limiting oneself to Console apps, why not port > > programs that DON'T have good Windows equivalents, such as sed, awk, > > tcsh, fortune, sup, CVS, and the like? These programs should work with > > Just have a look at Cygnus' NT development kit which already most of what > you need. Okay, thanks for the tip.. If somebody has already done a really good port, then I'll just point to it from my Web page rather than duplicating the effort.. But my plan is to develop the programs under Visual C++ rather than GCC, so Cygnus' development kit might not be too appropriate except for the console utilities (cat, cp, etc) that it contains, and as I mentioned, I'm more interested in user-level applications and games, that have no good Windows equivalent, rather than programmer tools that aren't particularly applicable to VC++ or Unix utilities that don't make a good transition to the GUI world (like the vi editor) or have perfectly servicable DOS-type equivalents (e.g. ls == dir). ---Jake
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