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From: Walter Briscoe
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 15:22

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In article <92e96p$2e79$1@nntp1.ba.best.com> of Thu, 28 Dec 2000
02:40:25 in comp.unix.programmer, toolbox@ideogram.com writes
>Some of us ex-Unix programmers now work on Win32.  By choice, even.
>But just because we left the promised land doesn't mean we have to do
>without Unix's rich set of tools.
>
>I've been thinking of collecting all the essential (and free)
>programmer's tools for Win32 and putting them on a CD.  With source,
>if possible.  If there's enough interest in this I can make copies of
>the CD and sell them at cost.  If there's really enough interest I can
>make it a subscription deal with quarterly updates.
>
>Here's my tentative list of essential tools (most of them GNU, of
>course):

Purely in the cause of dispensing information and without attempting
either to recommend or decry it, Microsoft does supply a UNIX for
Windows product. I had it installed on a Windows 2000 machine for a
couple of days. (I removed it because the semantics of the UNIX find
command were clashing with the tortured .BAT files I was running in
cmd.)
-- 
Walter Briscoe

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From: Walter Briscoe <wbriscoe@ponle.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Programmer's Toolbox CD idea
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 15:22:26 +0000
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