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  • Desired pure DOS ports

    From [email protected]@21:1/5 to All on Fri Oct 23 12:22:01 2020
    If someone who knows their way around make and compile of unix programs on
    DOS, please consider porting the following:

    MAXIMA (Symbolic Manipulation)

    R-language (statistics, aka R-console)

    Octave, Scilab or Freemat (matrix language)

    PDFTeX (Typesetting Markup Language, PDF standalone creator)

    I use a plain text Unix Bash shell ISP that has all of these programs without graphical components. I have a few legacy reasons to keep using DOS in some places, and this would be really nice, with all the caveats that is is
    obsolete and I am being an insufferable curmudgeon.


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  • From [via [email protected]]" @21:1/5 to [email protected] on Fri Oct 23 09:00:27 2020
    Nobody is going to port these out of the goodness of their heart. 
    PDFTeX may already have a DJGPP port, but I am unsure.

    On 10/23/2020 8:22 AM, [email protected] wrote:
    If someone who knows their way around make and compile of unix programs on DOS, please consider porting the following:

    MAXIMA (Symbolic Manipulation)

    R-language (statistics, aka R-console)

    Octave, Scilab or Freemat (matrix language)

    PDFTeX (Typesetting Markup Language, PDF standalone creator)

    I use a plain text Unix Bash shell ISP that has all of these programs without graphical components. I have a few legacy reasons to keep using DOS in some places, and this would be really nice, with all the caveats that is is obsolete and I am being an insufferable curmudgeon.



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  • From [email protected]@21:1/5 to All on Fri Oct 23 12:24:57 2020
    Add GCJ, the GNU Java executable complier, if possible.


    --
    Vasos Panagiotopoulos, Columbia'81+, Reagan, Mozart, Pindus
    blog: panix.com/~vjp2/ruminatn.htm - = - web: panix.com/~vjp2/vasos.htm
    facebook.com/vasjpan2 - linkedin.com/in/vasjpan02 - biostrategist.com
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  • From [email protected]@21:1/5 to All on Mon Oct 26 13:59:46 2020
    Thanks. I found pdftex.

    Well, some folks do these things. Someone who is used to compiling stuff, and is set up to do it for other things, like my ISP's staff.. can do it much
    more easily


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    Vasos Panagiotopoulos, Columbia'81+, Reagan, Mozart, Pindus
    blog: panix.com/~vjp2/ruminatn.htm - = - web: panix.com/~vjp2/vasos.htm
    facebook.com/vasjpan2 - linkedin.com/in/vasjpan02 - biostrategist.com
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  • From Witold Baryluk@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sat Jan 9 04:11:51 2021
    On Monday, October 26, 2020 at 1:59:48 PM UTC, [email protected] wrote:
    Thanks. I found pdftex.

    Well, some folks do these things. Someone who is used to compiling stuff, and is set up to do it for other things, like my ISP's staff.. can do it much more easily
    --
    Vasos Panagiotopoulos, Columbia'81+, Reagan, Mozart, Pindus
    blog: panix.com/~vjp2/ruminatn.htm - = - web: panix.com/~vjp2/vasos.htm facebook.com/vasjpan2 - linkedin.com/in/vasjpan02 - biostrategist.com ---{Nothing herein constitutes advice. Everything fully disclaimed.}---

    The projects you are asking about are very large, including a lot of code, optimisations, multiple languages, and os-specific codes. It would take a year full time to port each one of them. So about 500k$ for all 4 feels about right.

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