From: kenneth.block [krblock@computer.org]
Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2000 11:51 PM
Subject: Unix like environment for VMS

GNV - GNU's Not VMS!

GNV is an open source, GNU based, Unix environment for VMS. It is intended
to provide the important subset of Unix/Linux/POSIX necessary to port UNIX
software to VMS. See gnv.sourceforge.net for up to date information.

The environment currently consists of:

bash.exe  -- Doug Rupp's port of the GNU BASH Shell
make.exe  -- GNU Make with patches for VMS and integration with BASH
cc.exe    -- a Unix like cc driver for Compaq C for VMS
ar.exe    -- a Unix like wrapper for the lib utility

Miscellaneous utilities downloaded from the web complete the environment

AS.EXE;7        BASENAME.EXE;1  BZIP2.EXE;1     CAT.EXE;1
CHMOD.EXE;1     CP.EXE;1        DIFF.EXE;1      EGREP.EXE;1
EXPR.EXE;1      GAWK.EXE;1      GREP.EXE;1      GZIP.EXE;1
INSTALL.EXE;1   LS.EXE;1        MKDIR.EXE;1     MV.EXE;1
OBJDUMP.EXE;5   RM.EXE;1        RMDIR.EXE;1     SED.EXE;1
SET_EXE.COM;8   SLEEP.EXE;1     STAT.EXE;1      TAIL.EXE;1
TAR.EXE;1       TOUCH.EXE;1     TR.EXE;1        UNAME.EXE;1
WC.EXE;1

The environment is complete enough to build BASH using standard Unix
makefiles. Source for bash and make is available.

see gnv-ann.txt for more.