Hello, Robert.

Tuesday November 11 2014 at 14:51, you wrote to All:

 RW> would be able to point me into the right direction for ports of the
 RW> "normal" *NIX shells (bash, sh, etc) for OS/2 and eCS.

Use Paul Smedley's GCC/2 environment:

http://ports.smedley.info

Paul has ported a ton of Linux programs to OS/2 and he makes his
development environment available for download.

Later,
Sean

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