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From:	"McCunney, Dennis" <DMcCunney AT roper DOT com>
To:	cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject:	RE: Nutcracker Vs cygwin
Date:	Wed, 11 Aug 1999 13:51:32 -0400
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A good chunk of the U/Win package are ports of GNU tools.  The main pieces
that aren't that I recall are the POSIX.DLL (which fills the same functions
as the cygwin1.dll) and a port of the KornShell93.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Josh Baudhuin [mailto:joshb AT Cadence DOT COM]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 1999 12:23 PM
> To: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
> Subject: RE: Nutcracker Vs cygwin
> 
> u/win has GNU tools support, doesn't it? Mumit Khan has 
> ported egcs to that
> environment as well. Or do you refer to something else...
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
> [mailto:cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com]On Behalf Of Suhaib M.
> Siddiqi
> Sent: Wednesday, 11 August 1999 8:47 am
> To: ssiddiqi AT ipass DOT net; cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
> Subject: Re: Nutcracker Vs cygwin
> 
> Parr, Ian D wrote:
> >
> > Has anyone performed an evaluation/comparison of both products ?
> > Would they care to share their findings ?
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Ian Parr
> 
> Yes.  Bascially you are on your own.  NutCracker(NC), so does UWIN,
> lacks the GNU tools support.  That means most of the source codes
> can be compiled with less efforts with Cygwin.
> 
> Also the X Windows system support is same in NC, you need 
> their X-server
> to run the applications.  You also need to their versions of
> X11 and MOTIF to port.  In Cygwin you have access to all these tools
> (X11) with much less restrictions.

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