Re: [Freedos-devel] BASH

[Eric A. <e....@jp...>]

Hi,

> I spoke too soon.  I thought Gnuish MSDOS contained a bourne shell.  the closest thing was ms-sh*.* Korn shell.
> 
> I have a licensed Borland C++ 3.1 installed on my XP if anyone is interested in compiling something for 80x86.  It has a very useful code generator.
> Haven't used it in quite a while, but I still know it pretty well.
> 
> I wouldn't mind compiling an old version of BASH, but it requires that you already have the ability to run BASH configure scripts :-(.  Nothing like recursive dependencies.
> also, it was said that BASH is unusually large.  version 4.0's (latest) source is 21MB. 1.14.7's source is about 5MB and that's as far back as ftp://ftp.gnu.org goes.  I would need help getting this thing built because I don't have the resources to build properly in 16-bit.  by default bash wants gcc.  it may require a major rework to get it going on another compiler like BC++ 3.1.
> 
> well, stick with something already written I guess.

ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/00_index.txt
says that you can get BASH 2.04 for DOS from here:

ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/bsh204br2.zip
ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/bsh204b.zip

I know, short file names on web servers are quite annoying :-(

Eric

PS: Indeed BASH is known to be quite big and resource-heavy.
You might want to try PDKSH or similar shells. Other syntax!