Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 15:06:11 +0200 (MET DST) From: Marco Molteni <molter@logic.it> To: HOSOKAWA Tatsumi <hosokawa@ntc.keio.ac.jp> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ATT Unix for Windows ! Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970825145601.507A-100000@dumbwinter.ecomotor.it> In-Reply-To: <199708250830.RAA22863@afs.ntc.mita.keio.ac.jp>
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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 and belief in personal freedom".
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