Re: [groff] Loss of MSVC support

[John Gardner]

> Sorry for the false accusation about GOW lacking bash.

I was in the middle of pointing out it has Bash
<https://github.com/bmatzelle/gow/blob/master/bin/bash.exe>. ;-) And,
indeed, it does lack gcc and curses I'm afraid.

> Am I selling it short?

Possibly. But it provides the whole Unix toolchain we all know and love:
grep, sed, awk, ls, mkdir, ln, etc... tools which missing from `cmd.exe` by
default.


On Thu, 14 Feb 2019 at 10:31, Doug McIlroy <address@hidden> wrote:

>
> > https://github.com/bmatzelle/gow
>
> I wasn't aware of GOW. A quick look at the contents suggests to
> me that what's lightweight about it is the absence of gcc, bash,
> and curses (though it includes "less", a poster child for
> featuritis).
>
> Am I selling it short?
>
> Doug
>