--- F R E N D Z of martian --- M$ update their 'Unix services for NT' by buying Interix, an interoparability company with a product that looks remarkably similar to the free Cygwin GNUnix-on-DOS ===8<==============Original message text=============== http://www.microsoft.com/windows/sfu You see that Mr.Gates? He's your best friend he is. ;-) -----Original Message----- From: Martin Cosgrave [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2000 9:05 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Seen this? Andy, got a M$ url for that? www.interix.com talks about the M$ buyout... Thursday, March 16, 2000, 8:39:37 AM, you wrote: ADc> Thank you for purchasing Microsoft Interix, Microsoft's system environment ADc> for Windows NT that provides the most-requested functionality of UNIX ADc> systems. This Getting Started booklet provides installation information and ADc> a quick introduction for the two Microsoft Interix components: the basic ADc> commands and utilities and the Microsoft Interix Software Development Kit. ADc> Microsoft Interix gives you all the features of a traditional UNIX operating ADc> system, including pipes, hard file links, UNIX networking, and UNIX ADc> graphical support through the X Window System. It also provides UNIX and ADc> POSIX.2 utilities such as KornShell, awk, and vi. The Microsoft Interix ADc> environment is not an emulation; it is a native environment subsystem that ADc> integrates with the Windows NT kernel, just as the Win32 subsystem does. ADc> Shell scripts and other scripted applications that use UNIX and POSIX.2 ADc> utilities will run under Microsoft Interix. To port C source code from a ADc> UNIX system to Microsoft Interix, you will need the Microsoft Interix ADc> Software Development Kit. ADc> Microsoft Interix Release 2.2 functionality includes gcc and g++, new ADc> libraries and utilities, syslogd and utmpx functions, performance ADc> improvements, and improved interoperability with other filesystems such as ADc> NFS and Samba. Best regards, Martin mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ===8<===========End of original message text=========== Best regards, Martin mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Sent to you via the frendz list at marsbard.com The archive is at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
