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Better Solution Found: Run SSSU Native to HP-UX

I found a simple solution. There is an SSSU application that is native for HP-UX 11.23 on Itanium servers. Instead of needing to mess with Cygwin, I can just run a native application on Unix. In the process though, I learned the following as sidenotes:

1. According to the Cygwin docs, console applications sometime just won't work in the Cygwin environment. In those cases, they recommend running those applications in plain old CMD and if you need *nix commands, you can use the Cygwin apps from within CMD. This gives you the maximum interoperability possible in that scenario. It would not have worked for me.

2. If you want more unix-like terminal access, use 'rxvt' in Cygwin. Even without the Cygwin X server, it can give you X window cut and paste and a host of other *nix-like functionality.

3. There is an SSH server for Windows called Freesshd that does allow for console apps to work. This may have worked for me, but now that I have a native Unix app, I don't have a reason to try it in this instance. It seems that the only real benefits to Freesshd over Cygwin SSH are the ability to run console mode programs as expected including ANSI color, and a GUI to manage the server that is more applicable to Windows users.

4. There are two devices /dev/conin and /dev/conout in Cygwin which provide some stdio-like functionality but in Windows style rather than *nix. At least as far as I can tell. That was a bit beyond me, so I'll leave it to others to correct me if I'm wrong.

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file::spec::cygwin5.18

File::Spec::Cygwin(3pm) 				 Perl Programmers Reference Guide				   File::Spec::Cygwin(3pm)

NAME

       File::Spec::Cygwin - methods for Cygwin file specs

SYNOPSIS

	require File::Spec::Cygwin; # Done internally by File::Spec if needed

DESCRIPTION

       See File::Spec and File::Spec::Unix.  This package overrides the implementation of these methods, not the semantics.

       This module is still in beta.  Cygwin-knowledgeable folks are invited to offer patches and suggestions.

       canonpath
	   Any "" (backslashes) are converted to "/" (forward slashes), and then File::Spec::Unix canonpath() is called on the result.

       file_name_is_absolute
	   True is returned if the file name begins with "drive_letter:", and if not, File::Spec::Unix file_name_is_absolute() is called.

       tmpdir (override)
	   Returns a string representation of the first existing directory from the following list:

	       $ENV{TMPDIR}
	       /tmp
	       $ENV{'TMP'}
	       $ENV{'TEMP'}
	       C:/temp

	   Since Perl 5.8.0, if running under taint mode, and if the environment variables are tainted, they are not used.

       case_tolerant
	   Override Unix. Cygwin case-tolerance depends on managed mount settings and as with MsWin32 on GetVolumeInformation() $ouFsFlags ==
	   FS_CASE_SENSITIVE, indicating the case significance when comparing file specifications.  Default: 1

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       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

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