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- # readme. - for the GNUish MS-DOS library -*-Text-*-
- # Copyright (C) 1990 by Thorsten Ohl, td12@ddagsi3.bitnet
-
- This library contains MS-DOS ports of GNU library routines and other
- support routines for MS-DOS.
-
- The reason for distributing this files separately is to provide one
- `definitive' version of them. In the GNU distributions, several versions
- of this modules float around. This is particularily problematic in the
- case of the regexp library, since this needs some changes to run smoothly
- on 16-bit machines. Thus I would have to maintain several patches for the
- different programs. For example the regexp distributed with e?grep is
- really antique, patches for it are not very similar to those for the
- regexp library from the fileutils.
-
- This library also contains some files which do not need any changes at
- all, they're here, because they are oth general use and naturally fit
- into this library.
-
- The final component of this library are some MS-DOS support functions.
-
-
- SHORT DESCRIPTION:
-
- * error.c, getopt.c, getopt.h, getopt1.c, glob.c, regex.c, regex.h:
- General purpose GNU functions, needed by almost all GNU programs.
- The MS-DOS Version is identical to or derived from the version
- distributed with the fileutilities (Version 1.4, excpet glob.c
- which is from v1.3).
-
- * patches: these patches can be used to recover the original
- versions (for finding out, what I've broken ...).
-
- * _cwild.c:
- Commandline expansion.
-
- * ndir.c, ndir.h:
- Portable directory access.
-
- * pwd.c, pwd.h:
- No-op replacements for getuid (), etc.
- These functions are not really useful, but are convenient for
- avoiding extensive conditionalization of the GNU sources.
-
- * gnulib.h:
- Some prototypes.
-
- * xmalloc.c, xrealloc.c:
- It's useful to have them around ...
-
-
- OMISSIONS:
-
- * This library should contain a version of the obstack macros for
- all memory models. I do not have such a version.
-
-
-