Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!columbia!rutgers!mtune!lznv!psc From: p...@lznv.ATT.COM (Paul S. R. Chisholm) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: UNIX(R) tools for MS-DOS (list) Message-ID: <1112@lznv.ATT.COM> Date: Wed, 29-Jul-87 00:00:40 EDT Article-I.D.: lznv.1112 Posted: Wed Jul 29 00:00:40 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 31-Jul-87 01:13:46 EDT Organization: AT&T Lines: 115 Keywords: UNIX tools MS-DOS < "I'm *not* expendable, I'm *not* stupid, and I'm *NOT* going!" > I've collected a list of UNIX(R)-like tools that run under MS-DOS(TM). A lot of this information is from Harry Avant's article, "UNIX Shells and Utilities for DOS PCs" in the June 1987 issue of UNIX/World; the rest is from various advertisements. I'd be interested in others that any of you know, or experience you've had with them. A collection of UNIX-like public domain and shareware tools was just posted to comp.binaries.ibm.pc, but I haven't had a chance to look at it yet. I'm primarily interested in supported commercial tools. Please send mail to Internet p...@lznv.att.com, AT&T Mail !psrchisholm, or Usenet lznv!psc via mtune, allegra, cbosgd, ihnp4, or any other Action Central site. -Paul S. R. Chisholm MKS Toolkit, $140US: Mortice Kern Systems, 43 Bridgeport Road East, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2J 2J4, 519-884-2251. Includes awk, banner, basename, c, cal, cat, cd, chmod, cmp, comm, cp, cpio, crypt, ctags, cut, date, dd, deroff, dev, df, diff, dirname, du, echo, ed, egrep, env, expand, expr, fg, fgrep, file, find, fmt, fold, getopt, grep, head, help, init, join, kill, lc, line, login, ls, mkdir, more, mv, nm, od, pack, passwd, paste, pcat, pr, prof, ps, pwd, rev, rm, rmdir, sed, sh (really ksh), size, sleep, sort, split, strings, strip, sum, switch, tail, tee, test, time, touch, tr, uname, unexpand, uniq, unpack, unstrip, vi (included, but also available separately), wc, which, who. MasterCard and Visa accepted. Comments: A friend of mine just ordered from them. He said they sounded like sterotypical, "Great White North" Canadians. He also said version 2.2 was shipping (registered users can upgrade for $45US; new disks, all new manuals.). They have site licenses available (and some AT&T sites have them). I've heard *very* good things about these people. MKS vi still supports, but no longer requires, an ANSI device driver. They're on Usenet somewhere, and provide support via phone, paper mail, and email! Final note: how come we Americans can't sell those nasty furriners *any* encryption software, but these Canadians can sell us crypt(1)? (Flames to /dev/null, *please*!) PC/VI, $149; PC/TOOLS, $49; PC/SPELL, $49: Custom Software Systems, PO Box 678, Natick, MA 01760, 617-653-2555. Includes banner, bfs, cal, chmod, cut, diff, diffh, diff3, grep, head, make, od, paste, pr, rm, sed, see, sort, spell (separate package), split, strings, tail, touch, tr, vi (separate package), wc. American Express, MasterCard, and Visa accepted. Comments: They had the first good PC implementation of vi; I've heard good things about it. Don't know anything about PC/TOOLS. PC/SPELL does prefix and suffix stripping, but from the ad, it looks like just a spelling *checker*, not a spelling *corrector*. PCNX, $49: Wendin, PO Box 3888, Spokane, WA 99220-3888, 509-624-8088. Includes at, cat, cmp, cp, cron, date, df, echo, false, file, find, finger, getty, grep, group, grppswd, head, kill, line, logname, lpd, lpr, ls, mail, mkdir, mkgroup, mkuser, more, mv, news, nice, nohup, od, passwd, pr, ps, rev, rm, rmdir, rmgroup, rmuser, sh, sleep, strings, stty, tail, tee, test, time, touch, true, tty, uniq, wc, who, whodo, write. American Express, MasterCard, Visa accepted. Comments: PCNX is a UNIX-like environment; not just UNIX-like tools, but multi-processing under MS-DOS. I don't know if you can use these utilities from vanilla MS-DOS, or only while running PCNX. Wendin is now pushing "Wendin-DOS", a $99 "multitasking, multiuser MS-DOS replacement". Anyone know what's up in Spokane these days? PercentShell, $95: Thompson Automation, PO Box 5163, Beaverton OR 97006, 503-645-9434. Includes cat, chmod, cmp, cp, cu, cut, df, diff, du, egrep, fgrep, grep, head, login, ls, mf, mkdir, more, mv, paste, pr, printenv, pwd, rm, rmdir, sed, sh (some csh/ksh functions), split, tail, tee, touch, tr, uudecode, uuencode, wc, whereis. Micro C-Shell, $50; Micro C-Tools, $25; Micro Make, $25; Beckemeyer Development Tools, 478 Santa Clara Ave., Suite 300, Oakland CA 94610, 415-452-1129. Includes banner, cal, chmod, cmp, csh (separately), date, dc, detab, diff, entab, fgrep, file, find, head, lpr, make, num, od, pick, pr, rpl, sed, show, sort, split, strings, tail, tee, touch, uniq, wc. Comments: also available for Atari ST. Utility Pack, $75: Peak InfoSystems, 727 Manitou Ave., Manitou Springs, CO 80829, 303-685-1137. Includes calendar, calpath, cat, cb, chgvol, chmod, cl, col, crypt, d, df, e, ed, extract, grep, latest, list, pg, prep, ptx1, ptx2, ptxpath, red, renum, sort, split, table, tail, tee, tolower, touch, tr, uniq, update, uptime. Comments: cat (at least) knows about WordStar files (eighth bit on). Also includes disk twiddler, Epson printer utilities, and a loan amortization program (oh, gee!) DOS Helper, $50: MetaWare, 903 Pacific Ave., Suite 201, Santa Cruz CA 95060-4429, 408-429-6382. Includes cat, find, fgrep, ls, mv, tail, uniq, wc. Comments: find knows how to create (UNIX-compatible??) "tar" archives. Aztek C86-d Developer System, $299: Manx Software Systems, 1 Industrial Way, Eatontown NJ 07724, 800-221-0440, 205-542-2121. American Express, MasterCard, Visa accepted. Includes cc, diff, grep, make, vi. Comments: This is really a C compiler with some UNIX-like utilities. Anyone know if the utilities are available separately? Also available for Apple II, TRS-80, CP/M-80, Macintosh, Amiga. Text Management Utilities, $120: Lattice, PO Box 3072, Glen Ellyn IL 60138, 312-858-7950. Includes diff, ed, grep, wc, and non-UNIX utilities (build, extract, files, splat). Personal PVCS, $149; PVCS, $395: Polytron, 1815 NW 169th Pl., Beaverton OR 97006, 800-547-4000, 503-684-3000. Comments: A "Version Control System". They also sell a $150 make. UNIX is a registered trademark of AT&T. MS-DOS is a trademark of Microsoft. I'm not speaking for my employer, I'm just speaking my mind.
Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!rutgers!ucla-cs!zen!ucbvax!hplabs! hpcea!hpfcdc!hpfcph!garyq From: ga...@hpfcph.HP.COM ( Gary Quakenbush) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Need PC-VI Message-ID: <3540011@hpfcph.HP.COM> Date: Thu, 30-Jul-87 13:35:19 EDT Article-I.D.: hpfcph.3540011 Posted: Thu Jul 30 13:35:19 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 2-Aug-87 23:42:49 EDT Organization: HP Ft. Collins Lines: 8 Could someone post source or binary in appropriate notes file for PC-VI (a unix-like vi editor that runs on a PC)? I'm assuming this is available for public distribution. If its not public, how about a pointer to where it could be ordered. Gary Quakenbush HP, Fort Collins, Colorado
Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!gatech!bloom-beacon!husc6!spdcc!m2c! necntc!custom!boykin From: boy...@custom.UUCP (Joseph Boykin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Need PC-VI Message-ID: <761@custom.UUCP> Date: Mon, 3-Aug-87 08:49:58 EDT Article-I.D.: custom.761 Posted: Mon Aug 3 08:49:58 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 4-Aug-87 03:00:15 EDT References: <3540011@hpfcph.HP.COM> Organization: Custom Software Systems; Natick, MA Lines: 22 Summary: NOT Public Domain In article <3540...@hpfcph.HP.COM>, ga...@hpfcph.HP.COM ( Gary Quakenbush) writes: > Could someone post source or binary in appropriate notes file for > PC-VI (a unix-like vi editor that runs on a PC)? > > I'm assuming this is available for public distribution. If its not > public, how about a pointer to where it could be ordered. PC/VI is most definately *NOT* in the public domain. It is a commerical product of (my company) Custom Software Systems. This, as well as other UNIX software for DOS is available from: Custom Software Systems PO Box 678 Natick, MA 01760 617-653-2555 Please call or write for additional information; we really don't like using the net for commercial purposes. Joe Boykin Custom Software Systems ...necntc!custom!boykin