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Thomas Baker wrote:
It is great news that this is in the pipeline. Not sure if it is off-topic, but can someone explain in 25 words or less how "AST", "INIT", and "UWIN" relate to the Cygwin effort? My vague impression is that "UWIN" is a parallel universe to Cygwin -- a freely available WIN32 Unix-lookalike based on AT&T work, and that AST and INIT are something like the RPM formats of the UWIN world. Is that at all close?
AST is a toolkit that provides a portability layer on top of UNIX. It allows you to code to a single API and run on various flavors of UNIX. U/WIN (proper spelling) is the same idea as Cygwin. David Korn at AT&T research is the architect/chief developer. It's not free for commercial purposes, though there are downloadable versions on the web. What he has done in U/WIN is write a UNIX layer on top of Windows, then use AST for much of the libraries and utilities. The INIT stuff is packaging software, as far as I can tell. AT&T research (Bell labs) has a boatload of good software tools that don't really make it outside of AT&T, unfortunately. Joe Buehler -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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