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Old 02-01-2014
Question UNIX on Windows

Hello,
Need help in installing a Unix emulator on windows 7.
somebody told me about cygwin. But in that i am not getting which packages to select for Unix. as it takes 800mb of disk space but i need only Unix just to practice. as a Newbie.
# 2  
Old 02-01-2014
GygWin is NOT an emulator.

It is a highly competent _UNIX_ command line _equivalent_.

It is a command line interpreter that translates the Windows API to a very usable copy
of a real UNIX command line interpreter.

The _UNIX_ commands are executables in Windows format, not real UNIX executable
formats, but they respond the same.

Even the terminal responds to a large subset of the ASCII escape codes.

All in all, it is a good starter point if you do not intend to use the real thing.

Cygwin
# 3  
Old 02-01-2014
Why not install virtualbox, then do a FreeBSD virtual machine, or a PCBSD virtual machine?
Then you essentially have it all.
# 4  
Old 02-13-2014
Hi.

May this help You?
Most of the good commands You need:

FREE SOFTWARE FOR DOS — UNIX >> DOS

Native Win32 ports of some GNU utilities

I use those where I can not install Cygwin. (W_XP and W_7 32bit, not tried 64bit)

Put it in "homedirectory"\bin
Fix path.

I also needed to send mail from command line / cmd script:

Command Line SMTP Mailer for Windows

Works like a charm.

RolfB

---------- Post updated at 02:04 PM ---------- Previous update was at 02:04 PM ----------

Hi.

May this help You?
Most of the good commands You need:

FREE SOFTWARE FOR DOS — UNIX >> DOS

Native Win32 ports of some GNU utilities

I use those where I can not install Cygwin. (W_XP and W_7 32bit, not tried 64bit)

Put it in "homedirectory"\bin
Fix path.

I also needed to send mail from command line / cmd script:

http://retired.beyondlogic.org/solut...mdlinemail.htm

Works like a charm.

RolfB
# 5  
Old 02-13-2014
I often use busybox-w32, which includes a UNIX shell and dozens of UNIX commandline utilities in a few megabytes with one executable and no mess. It's not really UNIX, but neither is cygwin.
# 6  
Old 02-16-2014
I have had good luck with Windows Services for Unix. (Interix). Debian project has packages available for it. Should be faster than cygwin in theory.
 
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