[Wolves] cygwin

[Andy Wootton]

Andy Wootton wrote:

> Dick Turpin wrote:
>
>> Evenin All
>>
>> Anyone played with cygwin? I'm in the process of setting it up at 
>> work on my Spa.. machine, Oops I mean Email marketing machine ;-)
>> ...
>> I'm hoping on Monday I can delete the Gnome stuff I installed and get 
>> it to load KDE (All I'm after is KMail running on Windows XP) if not 
>> I reckon I'll have to uninstall the lot and start again. :-(
>>
>> Any thoughts anyone?
>>
>>  
>>
> Do you know that there is a seperate web site for Cygwin with X, 
> hosted by X.Org?
>
> See http://x.cygwin.com/
>
> I only ever tried the CLI version and the instructions to add X scared 
> me off. Months later I discovered that there was a seperate install 
> kit with X included, though I'm not sure I would have had space for it.
>
> Have a look at Microsoft's Windows Services for Unix too. It's a free 
> download from Microsoft (not Free, obviously) and includes the real 
> Korn shell. 
> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/sfu/default.mspx gives a 
> link to a free, slightly brain damaged version of a commercial X 
> server. WSU is intended to allow Unix apps to be ported to Windows but 
> I think it should work in reverse too. The manual is amazingly 
> pro-Unix for a Microsoft doc., suggesting you write shell scripts to 
> drive your Windows box.
>
> Woo
>