From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 26 04:33:36 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id EAA05017 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 26 Aug 1997 04:33:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from BIGFUN.vwcom.com ([151.197.101.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id EAA05010 for ; Tue, 26 Aug 1997 04:33:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from WillsCreek.COM (gw.willscreek.com [151.197.101.46]) by BIGFUN.vwcom.com (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id HAA01493 for ; Tue, 26 Aug 1997 07:28:42 -0400 (EDT) Received: from current.willscreek.com (root@current.willscreek.com [172.16.87.1]) by WillsCreek.COM (8.8.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA21162 for ; Tue, 26 Aug 1997 07:33:05 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from bmc@localhost) by current.willscreek.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) id HAA00444; Tue, 26 Aug 1997 07:33:05 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 07:33:05 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199708261133.HAA00444@current.willscreek.com> From: Brian Clapper MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATT Unix for Windows ! In-Reply-To: <125423093@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.23 under Emacs 19.34.1 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Richard Lyon wrote: > No source code available. > > Uses VC++ > > Don't see any reference to X clients > > No reference to successfully ported apps. Restrictive license. > Look at gnu-win32 (cygnus) which uses gcc. I second that excellent suggestion. I use the Cygnus stuff, and the UNIX tools that were ported with it, at work (where I am, unfortunately, required to use NT on occasion). It all Just Works. http://www.cygnus.com/gnu-win32/ ----- Brian Clapper, bmc@WillsCreek.COM, http://WWW.WillsCreek.COM/ I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true. -- Carl Sagan, The Burden Of Skepticism, The Skeptical Inquirer, Vol. 12, Fall 87