david@WUBIOS.WUSTL.EDU (David J. Camp) (11/04/90)
In Reply to this Note From: <Kapil Paranjape> >Can anyone help me get sources/implementations of Emacs and or Gnuchess >for PC's operating under DOS (or is this against GNU's philosophy?). > >Thanks in advance, >Kapil. > >e-mail: kapil@zaphod.uchicago.edu > The GNUISH people say a version of GNUCHESS is on the way. I am including a copy of their README file below. For an emacs version for MsDos, I suggest that you look in wuarchive:mirrors/msdos/editor for jove*.arc, plus in wuarchive:mirrors/msdos/freemacs and wuarchive:mirrors/msdos/memacs. Of these, I have only used freemacs, but found it limited to rather small files. I have heard good things about Micro Emacs (memacs), including that it handles larger files than freemacs. -David- david@wubios.wustl.edu ^ Mr. David J. Camp david%wubios@wugate.wustl.edu < * > +1 314 382 0584 ...!uunet!wugate!wubios!david v "God loves material things." README for the GNUish MS-DOS project. Copyright (C) 1990 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Last updated: 90-11-02. The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is not highly interested in ports of GNU software to MS-DOS, because they threaten to slow down the GNU project by using up the time of the people who maintain GNU software. However, Thorsten Ohl <td12@ddagsi3.bitnet> is organizing distribution of such ports and moderating the GNUish MS-DOS project. There is currently no room on prep.ai.mit.edu to put these files up for ftp. If prep get more disk space, they might become available. For the present, see below for a list of ftp archive sites providing a copy of the GNUish MS-DOS subdirectory and, for each ftp site, the name and electronic address of the maintainer. The GNUish MS-DOS subdirectory contains both MS-DOS ports of GNU software and MS-DOS replacements for non-ported GNU software, the collective whole being dubbed the "GNUish MS-DOS" project. When several ports of the same tool exist, one of them has been selected by the moderator of this project. This does not means that the selected port is the best possible, it means however that the port is quite good. Nobody should feel offended by any selection. Some tools are possibly dangerous if you do not thoroughly understand their usage (v.g. `rm -r *'). You ought to know what you are doing. YOU USE THESE TOOLS AT YOUR OWN RISK. You *were* warned! LEGAL CONDITIONS These programs are free software; you can redistribute them and/or modify them under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at your option) any later version. These programs are distributed in the hope that they will be useful, BUT WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY WHATSOEVER, without even the implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. See the GNU General Public License (the file COPYING) for more details. FTP ARCHIVE SITES The collection of programs known as the GNUish MS-DOS project is available for ftp at the following addresses. Administrative contacts and upload directories are listed here for the moderator's convenience. vulcan.phyast.pitt.edu [130.49.33.16], in pub/pc/gnudos. adm contact: Roberto Gomez <roberto@bondi.phyast.pitt.edu> upload in: incoming ocf.berkeley.edu [128.32.184.254], in pub/GNU/gnuish-msdos. sandstrom.berkeley.edu [128.32.234.18], alternatively. adm contact: Eric Ng <erc@irss.njit.edu> or <...!ucbvax!argon!erc> upload in: pub/GNU/uploads wsmr-simtel20.army.mil [26.2.0.74], in pd2:<msdos2.gnuish> adm contact: Keith Peterson <w8sdz@wsmr-simtel20.army.mil> uploaded by: David Camp <dave@wubios.wustl.edu> funic.funet.fi [128.214.6.100], in pub/msdos/gnudos. adm contact: Petri Hartoma <msdos1@nic.funet.fi> upload in: pub/msdos/incoming SOURCE CODE Due to space considerations, only the patches relative to the official GNU source code (with the source code found on prep.ai.mit.edu being considered "official") and custom-written source code are provided. In order to re-compile the GNUish MS-DOS project on your computer, you need to first obtain the official GNU source code. GNU documentation (if any) can also be found within the official GNU source code. The Free Software Foundation has set up an anonymous FTP site for GNU software on prep.ai.mit.edu [18.71.0.38]. The distributions present on that machine are considered "official" and are the best ones to use with the GNUish MS-DOS project. EXECUTABLE CODE For convenience, ready-to-execute binaries are also provided for those who do not have the necessary compilers, or do not feel like using them. User documentation is usually not provided, at least for now, beyond the documentation provided in the official GNU distribution. GNUISH MS-DOS CONTENTS File Notes Description or official sources cpio11.zoo prep.ai.mit.edu: pub/gnu/cpio-1.1.tar.Z diff114.zoo prep.ai.mit.edu: pub/gnu/diff-1.14.tar.Z fgrep11.zoo prep.ai.mit.edu: pub/gnu/fgrep-1.1.tar.Z find12.zoo 1 prep.ai.mit.edu: pub/gnu/find-1.2.tar.Z flex236.zoo prep.ai.mit.edu: pub/gnu/flex-2.3.6.tar.Z futil14.zoo prep.ai.mit.edu: pub/gnu/fileutils-1.4.tar.Z gdbm14.zoo 3 prep.ai.mit.edu: pub/gnu/gdbm-1.4.tar.Z gnulib0.zoo 3,4 Port of usual GNU routines gptx01.zoo 4 Ask <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca> grep15.zoo prep.ai.mit.edu: pub/gnu/grep-1.5.tar.Z inden11.zoo prep.ai.mit.edu: pub/gnu/indent-1.1.tar.Z m4v05.zoo prep.ai.mit.edu: pub/gnu/m4.tar.Z make358.zoo 2 prep.ai.mit.edu: pub/gnu/make-3.58.tar.Z mkinf10.zoo 4,5 prep.ai.mit.edu: pub/gnu/elisp.tar.Z sed106.zoo prep.ai.mit.edu: pub/gnu/sed-1.06.tar.Z sort03.zoo 4 Future GNU sort, version 0.3 swalib0.zoo 2,3 Swapping library from <td12@ddagsi3.bitnet> 1 use `zoo x//' to restore sub-directories 2 requires Microsoft C compiler at level 6.0 3 this is a source library, not a user program 4 GNUish, but unofficial or unreleased GNU product 5 includes both makeinfo *and* a stand-alone Info reader For those interested, the filename for each of packages is selected according to the following pattern: <radix><version><release>.zoo In this syntax, <radix> is a string of three to six characters to identify the product, v.g. `futil' indicates GNU file utilities. <version> is a series of one to three digits indicating the version, v.g. `14' for `1.4', 358 for `3.58' or `0' for non-released yet; the decimal point is not necessarily implied after the first digit. In no case <radix> and <version> altogether could go over seven characters. The <release> is nothing for the first edition in GNUish MS-DOS archives, but might be a single letter for subsequent editions, like `a', `b', `c', etc. in turn. FUTURE FILES The following GNU tools have already been ported to DOS, and will be added later in the GNUish MS-DOS subdirectory: bison chess compress ctags gawk perl rcs readline The following replacement tools could be made available in the GNUish MS-DOS subdirectory, in the future: freemacs or jove no editor war, please :-) ms_sh162 waiting for bash :-) uxutl162 only some of them Work is being done for: tar README AUTHORS This README file has been written disjointly by: Thorsten Ohl <td12@ddagsi3.bitnet> Francois Pinard <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca> Eric Ng <erc@irss.njit.edu> Richard Stallman <rms@ai.mit.edu>