Subject: Re: NetBSD cmdline tools in W2K
To: Andrew Gillham <gillham@vaultron.com>
From: Dave Uhring <duhring@charter.net>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 02/06/2003 13:29:11
On Thursday 06 February 2003 01:09 pm, Andrew Gillham wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 11:53:47AM -0700, dreamwvr@dreamwvr.com wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 11:19:32AM -0500, Sam Carleton wrote:
> > > Folks,
> > >
> > > Does anyone know how I might be able to add all the wonderful
> > > command line tools that I have grown to love in NetBSD, and other
> > > UNIX's to my W2K machine?
> > >
> > > I am looking for things like grep, sed, sort, uniq, etc.
> >
> > Well closest env that I am aware is linux cygwin. If you select
> > the entire install you pretty much emulate all the popular
> > command tools. Hope that helps.
>
> AFAIK Cygwin != Linux. http://cygwin.com/
>
> That would be a nice name though: GNU/Linux/Cygwin for Windows. :-)
If the platform -must- be Windows then this one also may do the job, even if
it does come from Redmond, WA. It's what they used to migrate their FreeBSD
scripts at hotmail.com to W2k server. It's not free, either.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/sfu/productinfo/overview/default.asp