From:	"Dan Haynes" <haynesd AT ibm DOT net>
To:	<djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject:	Re: LFN support under NT
Date:	Thu, 8 Apr 1999 15:54:26 -0600
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Reply-To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com

AT&T has a product called U-Win. It's available on the net, not sure of
licensing terms. It looks better than Cygwin.

A working Perl for NT is available several places - the best version comes
with MKS toolkit (HIGHLY recommended if you are doing Unix -> NT stuff. I've
been a user since the DOS version 1988, and it's the only package I still
always use and upgrade)

The Cygwin stuff is still poor... but from my experience it's much better
than DJGPP because it has native NT libraries etc. I would not recommend
buying the support for Cygwin, they have been pretty much useless for us on
Cygwin and GNUPro.

Hope that helps some.

Regards,

  Dan Haynes



Paul S Cadaret <pscadar5 AT psnotes DOT collins DOT rockwell DOT com> wrote in message
<8825674D DOT 00759EAD DOT 00 AT psnotes DOT collins DOT rockwell DOT com>...
>
>
>
> I have a task to perform where I must port over a UNIX based cross
> development
> environment to NT-4.0-SP4.   I require a ksh-like shell (delorie bash is
> fine),
> gnu-make (delorie-gnu-make is fine), and a relatively recent perl (delorie
> perl is
> fine).   I was originally pointed to CYGWIN,  which was looking good until
> I
> couldn't find a pre-built perl that world work.
>
> I then found the delorie site and it was looking very good until I ran
into
>  the limitation
> of no long-file-name support.
>
> I searched through the email archives and found a reference to a
> long-file-name TSR
> for NT at the pentium compiler group.  I tried it; it worked for local
> drives and crashed for
> network drive; ... not good enough.
>
> The delorie package looks great except for long-file-name support.  I will
> even consider buying
> software for NT to make sure I can have long-file-name support under NT.
>
> Can anyone provide me with some pointers to how to solve my problem?
>
> thanks.
>
>

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