[aclug-L] Re: GNU utilities for Win32

[Tom Hull <thull@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

There's a much larger package of GNU utilities available from Cygnus,
called "CygWin32". It includes the GNU compiler/tool chain.

There's another package that David Korn ported from the standard AT&T
UNIX distribution.

As best I recall, both of these are free, although it will take a bit
of scratching to find them. (Don't recall the links.) I looked at both
a couple of years ago, but have pretty much sworn off Windows since
then.

Ryan Claycamp wrote:
> 
> Last night I heard some people lamenting using the dos shell under
> Windows and typing Unix commands, only to receive an error.  I
> downloaded this file about a week ago, after hearing about it in
> Lockergnome.  Here is his blurb:
> 
> GNU utilities for Win32 [2.1M] W9x/NT FREE
> 
> http://www.edv.agrar.tu-muenchen.de/~syring/win32/UnxUtils.zip
> http://www.edv.agrar.tu-muenchen.de/~syring/win32/UnxUtils.html
> 
> This distribution comes with: ansi2knr, basename, bison, bzip2, bunzip2,
> bzip2recover, cat, chgrp, chmod, chown, cksum, cmp, comm, compress, cp,
> csplit, cut, date, dd, df, diff, diff3, dirname, du, echo, egrep, env,
> expand, expr, factor, fgrep, find, flex, fmt, fold, gawk, gnumake, grep,
> gsar, gunzip, gzip, head, id, install, join, less, ln, logname, ls, m4,
> md5sum, mkdir, mkfifo, mknod, mv, mvdir, nl, od, paste, patch, pathchk,
> pr, printenv, printf, ptx, recode, rm, rman, rmdir, sdiff, sed, seq,
> sleep, sort, sh, shar, split, su, sum, sync, tac, tail, tar, tee, test,
> touch, tr, uname, unexpand, uniq, unshar, uudecode, uuencode, wc, wget,
> which, whoami, xargs, xxd, and yes.
> 
> I haven't tried everything, but after putting c:\usr\local\bin in my
> path, typing 'ls' and seeing a directory listing is refreshing.  It
> might make those unavoidable Windows sessions a little more endurable.
> 
> Ryan
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