Re: Unix shell scripts on NT

From: dh99 <dh99_at_mindspring.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 22:40:32 -0700
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Ed Stevens wrote in message <7sodkq$mu2$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?
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>Ed Stevens
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Received on Tue Sep 28 1999 - 07:40:32 CEST

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