cc: PSARC-EXT at sun.com Charles.Debardeleben at sun.com David.Comay at sun.com Subject: Re: Re: [shell-discuss] Re: PSARC FastTrack [PSARC/2007/233]: Default shellenvironment:machine ksh93/back environment --------
Joerg.Schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote: > Joseph Kowalski <jek3 at sun.com> wrote: > > > Try cygwin. A "cute" little UNIX emulation layer on Windows. > > (No offense with "cute". Its gosh-darn hard to emulate UNIX on > > a system which can neither "fork" or "exec", only "spawn".) > > The OS that is below the "MS-WIN emulation layer" seems to support > something simiar. If you use SFU instead of cygwin, compiling and in > special shell scripts like "configure" are much faster than with cygwin. > > SFU does not sit on top of the "MS-WIN emulation layer" but besides it. > As long as were mentioning UNIX emulations for Windows, I will add UWIN which, like Cygwin, is a layer on Win32. UWIN comes with the same ksh93 as on all other systems and also runs like "configure" much faster than with cygwin. It comes with a development kit with a c89 command built on top over MVSC. Unlike cygwin, it does not have the GPL restrictions since is uses the AST toolkit for the commands. It can be downloaded from the same site as the ksh93 site, http://www.research.att.com/sw/download. Unlike, SFU, you can write programs that make both WIN32 calls as well as UNIX calls. David Korn dgk at research.att.com
