From: nilendu AT wipinfo DOT soft DOT net (Nilendu Pal)
Subject: Re: Does a Korn Shell come with NT?
4 Nov 1997 02:43:22 -0800
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In reply to Michael Hirmke's mail dated  3 Nov 97 at 21:02:

> >I heard, or read in an e-mail message, that NT comes with some Unix utils,
> >including a Korn shell.  Was this a dream I had because I want it really bad?
> >What Unix Utils come with NT?
> 
> IMHO it would be better to get the Cygnus toolkit for free instead
> of buying the NT resource kit.
> 
> The Cygnus toolkit includes bash, which you can configure so that it
> behaves nearly like a Korn shell.

You can also check out "U/Win" which is a (almost) complete UNIX 
environment for Win NT/95. It includes a "ksh" which runs natively on 
NT/95. The URL is 
	http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/uwin/

And, it is also FREE.

Regards,
Nilendu.



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