From: locke AT mcs DOT net (Peter Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Best NT port of gnu file and text utils?
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 22:36:01 GMT
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Try Cygnus--it's a "real" Win32 port of the GNU utilities.

The others you mentioned (I think) are all DOS-based utilities, which
means that to do long filenames they must rely on the Win9x-vintage
API for LFNs, which MS has not implemented under NT (thus the need for
lfn0106).

Good luck!

Peter Johnson
locke AT mcs DOT net
 
On Thu, 15 Apr 1999 21:17:39 GMT, davidst AT nortelnetworks DOT com (David
Stuart) wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I've grown up in a UNIX world, and have recently been thrust
>reluctantly into the realm of Windows NT. As such, I have been
>searching high and low for some decent NT ports of all the common file
>utils and text utils for gnu. Running Linux is out of the question,
>given our requirements..
>
>I have tried 'dosunix' (I think it's called)
>I have tried 'unix95'
>I have tried 'gnuish' utilities
>And finally, I have tried djgpp (Still don't know what that stands
>for??).
>
>I am very puzzled by the LACK of support for long filenames in these
>utilities. Especially the gnuish and djgpp stuff, since one would
>think (!) that ports from unix; where long filenames are common, would
>be easier than trying to port to 8.3. The best of these seems to be
>Unix95, at least it supports long filenames, although it has other
>problems.
>
>djgpp seems to have some promise, but the lack of long filenames is a
>big problem. I tried the lfn0106.zip, but this doesn't work very well
>on my networked clearcase drive.
>
>Also, I am very puzzled by the strange behavior of 'ls'. It constantly
>tries to 'resize' my console window; and I can't (for the life of me)
>get it to display colours. Why should doing a file listing have to
>resize my window? Bizarre!
>
>If someone could tell me how to solve these issues, I might be tempted
>to stick with djgpp..
>
>Dave