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Re: GNU utilities for Win32




On 04-Aug-97 Shlomi Fish wrote:

>Yes, I know about the Cygnus collection and I even tried it here, at work.
>Its utilities have some problems though:
>1. They require a 3 MB DLL called cygwin.dll to be present in the
>c:\windows\system directory.

So?

>2. They do not process wild character expressions themselves. Thus, if you
>type "grep hello *.*" on a DOS box, it won't work because there is no such
>file called "*.*". In UNIX the shell replaces wild characters expressions
>with the filenames list, and that's what all the Cygnus utilities expect.
>Therefore, they will only function properly from within the Win32 port of
>Bash that is included there.

They assumed any homo *sapiens* would prefer it.

>3. Most of them come as part of a very large archive.

And??

...
I'm very impressed by the work Cygnus did for porting Unix enviroment to win32.
When I was few weeks ago in a summer school in Oxford, once on a weekend I found
myself sitting opposite to a PC with only Win95 installed :^) (you see, it was 
against my good will). I recalled the announce of gnuwin32 in c.o.l.a and 
decided to try porting xmgr to win95. It took only 5 hours, including download,
installation, some dirty hacks to compile RPC lib (which isn't in the Cygnus 
DK), some very minor changes to the application's source itself - and I got a 
working GUI-less variant of it! Very surprised, I downloaded the just-released
Lesstif-0.80, ran ./configure;make - and got it compiled without a tiny change;
then - you guess - I compiled the full version of xmgr. See 
ftp://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/pub/xmgr4/bin/win32/xmgrwin.gif, if you don't
believe. (BTW, Lesstif guys have been progressing very well lately).

Regards,

Evgeny

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