Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT sources DOT redhat DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT sources DOT redhat DOT com>, <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com
Message-ID: <3991DC59.13F55EE7@ece.gatech.edu>
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 18:34:01 -0400
From: "Charles S. Wilson" <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; U)
X-Accept-Language: en
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject: UnxUtils [OT]
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Since the issue has come up several times on the list, I figured it'd be
a good idea to post this info here. However, please do not reply to the
list.

Karl M. Syring has developed several native (non-cygwin) ports of common
GNU utilities, and has distributed them from

http://www.weihenstephan.de/~syring/win32/UnxUtils.html

However, he has not posted the source code to those utilities, and both
Earnie and I have recommended *against* using his ports until he
complies with the GPL, since many of the original sources of those
utilities are distributed under that license. (If you wanted to use
GNU-ish tools without cygwin...but why? :-)

I corresponded with Karl last week, and he is in the process of getting
the source code in a state that is releaseable. He has also just
established a SourceForge project:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/unxutils/

The sourceforge project does not yet contain any files (i.e. no source
yet) but he's getting there.

--Chuck

--
Want to unsubscribe from this list?
Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com