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From: rrankin AT primenet DOT com (Rick Rankin)
Subject: RE: True "native" NT ports of GNU stuff?
19 Jun 1998 04:20:32 -0700 :
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To: "Michael Weiser" <michael AT weiser DOT saale-net DOT de>,
"Kurt Stephens" <kurt_stephens AT swissbank DOT com>
Cc: <gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com>

>
> A native Win32 sh is a real problem. There's a port of csh on
> http://www.hamiltonlabs.com/ which unfortunately is payware.
> An alpha version of a bash 1.4 port is available from
> ftp://ftp.cc.utexas.edu/microlib/nt/gnu, although the author has
> stopped development in favour of cygwin32. :-(
>
> Another payware project is Mortice Kern Systems' MKS Toolkit
> (http://www.mks.com/) which however (as far as I know) doesn't include
> any shell.

Last time I used it (and it's been a few years), the MKS Toolkit included a
fairly complete Korn shell implementation. However, I think the toolkit is
fairly pricy (sp?) approx. $300.

Rick Rankin
rrankin AT primenet DOT com

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