cygwin on xp

[Chuck Allison]

Hello Brad,

I've been using Cygwin on XP for a long time and find it stable and
useful. Depending on what you want to do, you might also want to
consider UWIN, AT&T's Unix port to Windows. It has a robust
development environment, and integrates well with Windows. Go to
http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/uwin/. Its k-shell is superb (but
of course, it's maintained by David Korn himself :-).

Friday, May 23, 2003, 3:08:52 PM, you wrote:

BD> Cygwin works fine on Win2k and XP the secret seems to be to install all
BD> of the packages. The last time I installed it would not run correctly
BD> unless you selected to install all of the packages. 

BD> If you are looking at platform independent development I would
BD> definitely look at Java. I have been developing web services in Java for
BD> several years now and have not had the problems that you were
BD> mentioning. I have seen some developers get carried away with Bean
BD> development. That does seem to slow things down some. Smart developers
BD> should see any problems. 

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Best regards,
 Chuck Allison (The Harmonious CodeSmith)
 Senior Editor, C/C++ Users Journal
 cda at freshsources.com