Hi Forgive my ignorance but I haven't seen any discussion about this on GRASS lists yet.
I have just read about Microsoft Windows Services for UNIX (SFU) [1] - a UNIX subsystem that integrates with the Windows kernel as the Win32 subsystem does. Unlike Cygwin which runs on top of the Windows shell as an emulator, SFU implements a true UNIX peer to the Windows shell, which provides better performance (I heard that GRASS happens to be slow in Cygwin). I was wondering if SFU could be help for Windows GRASS users. SFU provides Korn and C shells, most UNIX core utilities, perl, python, gcc etc. More are available from [2], eg. BASH. A problem is that it doesn't work on Windows 9x, Windows XP Home or Windows Vista. There's a detailed description of components and functionality on [3]. [1]http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=896c9688-601b-44f1-81a4-02878ff11778&displaylang=en [2]http://www.interopsystems.com/tools/default.aspx [3]http://www.softpanorama.org/Unixification/SFU/index.shtml Maciek _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list [email protected] http://grass.itc.it/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
