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RE: Nutcracker Vs cygwin
- To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
- Subject: RE: Nutcracker Vs cygwin
- From: "McCunney, Dennis" <DMcCunney@roper.com>
- Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 13:51:32 -0400
A good chunk of the U/Win package are ports of GNU tools. The main pieces
that aren't that I recall are the POSIX.DLL (which fills the same functions
as the cygwin1.dll) and a port of the KornShell93.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Josh Baudhuin [mailto:joshb@Cadence.COM]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 1999 12:23 PM
> To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Subject: RE: Nutcracker Vs cygwin
>
> u/win has GNU tools support, doesn't it? Mumit Khan has
> ported egcs to that
> environment as well. Or do you refer to something else...
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com
> [mailto:cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com]On Behalf Of Suhaib M.
> Siddiqi
> Sent: Wednesday, 11 August 1999 8:47 am
> To: ssiddiqi@ipass.net; cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Subject: Re: Nutcracker Vs cygwin
>
> Parr, Ian D wrote:
> >
> > Has anyone performed an evaluation/comparison of both products ?
> > Would they care to share their findings ?
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Ian Parr
>
> Yes. Bascially you are on your own. NutCracker(NC), so does UWIN,
> lacks the GNU tools support. That means most of the source codes
> can be compiled with less efforts with Cygwin.
>
> Also the X Windows system support is same in NC, you need
> their X-server
> to run the applications. You also need to their versions of
> X11 and MOTIF to port. In Cygwin you have access to all these tools
> (X11) with much less restrictions.
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