Re: Unix shell scripts on NT

mks is excellent, but you may also want to look into cygwin from cygnus.  it's free afaik.

In article <7sohea$9ej_at_chronicle.concentric.net>,   "Steven Cardinal" <scardinal_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
> Mortice Kern makes some Unix utilities for NT (MKS Toolkit)
> got to www.mks.com for more info.
>
> No affiliation, yadda yadda yadda
>
> -Steve
>
> Ed Stevens wrote in message <7sodie$mti$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com>...
> > Subject: Unix shell scripts on NT
> >
> >Is anyone aware of a utility that will process Unix shell scripts on
> >NT? I recently purchased the book “Oracle Scripts” by Lomasky &
> >Kreines and it is very Unix-centric, all of the scripts written for
> >Unix. The authors have few paragraphs on porting to other platforms,
> >but about all they say is it should be no big deal. Pretty cavalier
> >attitude when you consider that a lot of Unix utilities have no
> >equivalent in NT, much less the translation effort involved for
someone
> >not versed in Unix. There is an EXE file called TOUNIX.EXE that
sounds
> >promising, but there is no reference to it in the book or any of the
on-
> >disk docs.
> >
> >Has anyone else already solved this problem?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >--
> >Ed Stevens
> >
> >
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> >Before you buy.
>
>

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Before you buy. Received on Tue Sep 28 1999 - 13:39:06 CDT