[aclug-L] Re: GNU utilities for Win32

["Dale W Hodge" <dwh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: tom@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:tom@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Tom Hull
>
> 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.
>

A quick check found that the Cygnus tools have been bought by Red Hat in
January, 2000, and are not free.  They also only run on Windows NT.

I didn't look for the Korn packages...

--dwh

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