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Old 07-31-2011
unix for windows

Hi Guys,

cygwin is the new tool I have found for making a unix env in windows. is it a good tool? is there anything else I can use? I mean any common tool that people use these days? tx
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Old 07-31-2011
Uwin from AT&T Labs Research.

software download selections

Includes Ksh and the AT&T AST utilities, so scripts written to run with the AST utilities on any UNIX box, will work without modification under Uwin.

The link above should point to the overview page which provides a good list of the Uwin functions and capabilities.
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Old 07-31-2011
Cygwin is wonderful! And it keeps getting better because there are good developers constantly parrying Microsoft's maneuvers and keeping third-party package updates compiled. I would have an awful time at work without it.

There are three alternatives I've heard of. MinGW I used only briefly. Second is UWIN, but my old URL seems to have problems (Ah, I see someone else posted it). And last is Microsoft's own Windows Services for UNIX, but the link I had for it doesn't work.

Of course, there are lots of unix tools compiled for Windows, like GnuWin32.
 
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