peters@CC.MsState.Edu (Frank W. Peters) (02/07/90)
Hello,
I am in charge of our UNIX systems and have a UNIX box on my
desk. To allow me to solve communications problems between PCs and
our UNIX systems I have been given an old XT clone with an ethernet
card.
My problem is that I don't use DOS often enough to avoid the
dreaded backslash and cat-vs-type sorts of errors. On the other hand
I don't use the PC often enough to justify spending much money on
software to solve these problems.
So, I'd like to hear about any free software for the PC to make
it more UNIXlike. Examples of the kind of software I'd like include:
- Anything to allow me to use forward slashes in directory names.
- implementations of basic commands such as ls, cat, more, od, rm and grep.
Lacking this, I'd like a way to alias these command to their DOS
equivalents (for those that have DOS equivalents).
- A clone of vi (no flames...thats the editor I know). Barring that,
an emacs like editor (I assume jove and micro-emacs are available
somewhere).
- Any of the more powerful utilities like awk and sed (or perl :-).
- AN implementation of tar...preferably one that writes files that can
be read by UNIX tar. Uuencode/decode would also be nice.
Are any of the GNU utilities ported to DOS perhaps?
Any and all pointers would be appreciated.
Thanx
--Frank
Frank W. Peters Systems Programmer Computing Center & Services
peters@CC.MsState.Edu Peters@MsState.Bitnet (601)325-2942
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