Re: A $64k ? (UNIX commands on NT)

Also You can get all of the GNU UNIX utilies (including mknod, dd , bash , strings, tar , grep , make , gcc etc. ) for NT at http://www.cygnus.com/misc/gnu-win32 (the URL may have changed but the domain name is still the same ).

Good thing is I can write bourne shell/make scripts to rebuild all of my forms. Without having to learn another scripting language. (The product is still in beta though but its free! well parts are GPL'ed and other parts ain't)

Also there is U/WIN (By the Korn Shell fella) at http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/uwin/ I've not tried this one. This is also free *I think* but there is no source code and some kind of licensing.

Now can someone answer my menu questions please! :-)

Andy L.

Andrew_Lord_at_NOSPAM.tertio.com - remove NOSPAM.

In article <3443b44c.1394725_at_news.cybernex.net>, nwhitehead_at_rocketmail.com (nwhitehead_at_rocketmail.com) wrote:
@ Go to www.windows95.com.
@ They have a few sets of UNIX utilties for Win32.
@ If you really need hard core UNIX support for NT,
@ look for a product called OpenNT.
@
@ Nicholas
@ nwhitehead_at_rocketmail.com
@
@ >
@ >--------------59B974EC142ED31D179B8BF9
@ >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
@ >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
@ >
@ >I need to convert a file from EBCDIC to ASCII and then use it as input
@ >to SQL*Loader using as little disk space as possible. On UNIX machines
@ >this can be accomplished easily using “dd” to do the character
@ >conversion and a FIFO pipe to handle the I/O. An example:
@ >
@ >$ mknod fifo_pipe p
@ >$ dd if=/dev/rmt/0 of=fifo_pipe conv=ascii &
@ >$ sqlldr userid=foo/bar data=fifo_pipe control=foobar.ctl
@ >
@ >What is the NT solution, or is there none?
@ >
Received on Thu Nov 20 1997 - 00:00:00 CST