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Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 10:24:16 -0400
From: Charles Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
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More info:

> Charles,
> ich have started an Open Source project at Sourceforge. While there is not
> much documentation at the moment, the raw sources are accessible via cvs:
> cvs -d:pserver:anonymous AT cvs DOT UnxUtils DOT sourceforge DOT net:/cvsroot/unxutils
> login
> 
> There are still some makefiles missing.
> 
> Regards
> Karl

Again, this is probably of (minor) interest to most folks on this list,
but it IS off-topic, so please keep any discussion off-list. (In fact,
the UnxUtils project at sourceforge has a discussion board...)

--Chuck

"Charles S. Wilson" wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
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