Re: Unix to Windows DBA translation

"Terry Dykstra" <dontreply_tddykstra_at_forestoil.ca> wrote in news:14oMa.43885$T85.5185596_at_news1.telusplanet.net:

> The cygwin Unix utilities are good and free (GNU GPL license). See
> http://www.cygwin.com/
>

I'd second that. I use the PD Korn shell with Cygwin and love it. The only significant differences I've found between that setup and ksh on a true unix server are.

1. No named pipes in cygwin (yet)
2. Coprocesses in pdksh use the <cr><lf> line terminator which does not get stripped down to a plain <lf> as in unix. Some scripts may need to be changed to accomodate this.