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[byron@netapp.com (Byron Rakitzis)]

Hello. Last week I presented a paper on es at the winter Usenix.
The presentation was scheduled in the first session, so there
were a lot of people there to listen, including various Bell
Labs luminaries, Berkeley hackers, and so on.

After the talk a few people came to talk to me about porting
es to other operating systems, notably plan9 and DOS. A couple
of the labs folks downloaded es by modem onto their plan9
laptops and bashed at it for a while, but the plan9 environment
is sufficiently different from Unix that porting a shell (which
has very Unix-specific code like the signal handler) proved to need
more effort than they were willing to put in at the conference.

Peter Deutsch, the GNU PostScript cloner, wants to port es to
DOS so he can use it at home on his PC. I am not sure how close
to the Unix syscall interface DOS comes, but I suspect