On Wed, 29 Aug 2001 at 5:24pm, Gene Heskett wrote

> Does anyone know of a decent compiler for windows thats not a bank
> breaker?  I'd like to see if its buildable for the general run of W95
> and W98 machines.
>
> And has anyone made amanda work as client on a windows box other than
> via samba?  In other words, am I just spinning my wheels to even think
> about it?

ISTR that people have gotten inetd running under cygwin.  If you can get
that going, plus tar (probably included in the distro), plus amandad, you
may have a shot.  I have no idea if amanda will compile in cygwin.

Of course, I may be recalling for NT/2K, and not 95/98, but who knows.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University

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