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From: Marco Molteni <molter@logic.it>
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To: HOSOKAWA Tatsumi <hosokawa@ntc.keio.ac.jp>
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Subject: Re: ATT Unix for Windows !
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On Mon, 25 Aug 1997, HOSOKAWA Tatsumi wrote:

> In Japan, such software has been used for years.  The name is "BSD on
> Windows".
> 
> According to its homepage
> (http://www.ascii.co.jp/pb/superascii/bow/index.html - written in
> Japanese),
> 
> 	"BSD on Windows" is a BSD UNIX kernel emulator that executes
                                          ^^^^^^^^
> 	4.4BSD-lite based BSD UNIX program (i386 architecture) on
> 	Microsoft Windows, and you can enjoy single user multi tasking
> 	UNIX compatible environemnt.
(..)
> It's commercial software (costs about $100), and I don't know whether
> it works on English Windows or not.

According to the ATT homepage (http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/uwin/)
the software is free and is not a kernel emulator, is a set of DLLs:

"The library functions are implemented as functions exported in
a DLL (POSIX.DLL). Programs linked with POSIX.DLL run under the
WIN32 subsystem instead of the POSIX subsystem. Thus programs can
make UNIX library calls or any other WIN32 call as required. 
A cc command is provided to compile and link programs for U/WIN on
Windows NT. The cc command calls either the Microsoft Visual C/C++
2.X compiler, the Visual C/C++ 4.X compiler, the Visual C/C++ 5.0
compiler, or the Microsoft Tools C compiler to perform the actual
compilation and linking."

Obviously :-(, you can download only the binaries (ie no source).


Marco Molteni
Computer Science student at the Universita' degli studi di Milano, Italy.
"This snakeskin jacket symbolizes my individuality
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