Fw: Redirection & wildcarding under VMS

[Bernard Giroud]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bernard Giroud" <address@hidden>
To: "Jim Meyering" <address@hidden>
Cc: <address@hidden>
Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 5:32 PM
Subject: Redirection & wildcarding under VMS


> I wrote some time ago:
> 
> > In relation to project GNV, I started to modify several GNU utilities
> > so that they work under GNV (i.e. GNU under VMS) as well as VMS
> > native (DCL).
> >
> > ...(snip)...
> >
> > For textutils, the purpose is to support redirection under VMS, even
> > if not running under bash (i.e. under bash: let bash do it, otherwise:
> > intercept argv processing and do it in a module called shell_mung).
> >
> > I borrowed the idea from grep which has a line:
> >   initialize_main (&argc, &argv);
> > with a normal definition of
> > #ifndef initialize_main
> > #define initialize_main(argcp, argvp)
> > #endif
> > in the header file system.h (i.e. if not defined
> > in config.h, do nothing).
> >
> > It works fine, but I would prefer not to maintain it
> > on the site while it might be useful to other people.
> >
> > Would it be possible to integrate these modifications
> > to the main tree? And if yes, where would be the
> > module shell_mung.c (I suspect in .lib), and what
> > is the procedure to follow?
> 
> And Jim Meyering replied :
> 
> >Hi Bernard,
> >
> >Please make any changes relative to the latest releases:
> >
> >  ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/fetish/coreutils-4.5.3.tar.gz
> >
> >(coreutils is the recent union of sh-utils, fileutils, and textutils)
> >
> 
> Alas, the priority of the project slipped down, and it is
> only very recently I could attack it again. So I decided to
> do the diff against the current CVS.
> 
> Also, this patch demonstrates the idea with only one utility
> (comm.c) and the necessary change in configure.ac to
> allow it to work under any posix system.
> 
> If approved in principle, it could be done in 2-3 stages:
> 1) apply this patch
> 2) I will generate and submit for approval the patch for
> all other utilities concerned
> 3) (optional) add the file shell_mung.c in the coreutils
> distro, probably in the lib subdir and find a way to
> generate the makefile to build the utilities under GNV so
> that they can be used in both contexts (GNV bash or DCL).
> 
> >and please post your patches to address@hidden
> >  http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
> >Sorry, but I can't make any promises on when I'll be able
> >to look at (or integrate) your changes though.
> 
> Obviously ! But if you do integrate it (them), will you need a
> copyright assignment from my employer for a so small
> change (point 1 and 2 above) ? If so, it will probably take
> more time than you will need to have a look ('cause holiday
> time!).
> 
> Thanks in advance and best regards,
> 
> Bernard Giroud
> Credit Lyonnais (Suisse) SA

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