Title: Mks On Pc
JayJay - February 2, 2006 04:35 PM (GMT)
Has anyone installed the MKS toolkit on their laptop pc? Is there any issues I should worry about? Are there other (hopefully free) unix emulators ?
schroncd - February 2, 2006 06:28 PM (GMT)
I have MKS on a couple of my machnies.. I also use "UWin" from AT&T which I REALLY like. and of course there is the old standby "Cygwyn".
You can also dig around and find gnu utilities for Windows/DOS which give you most of the capabilities - but UWin has it's on ksh shell, so you can work within it quite comfortably. Of course, VIM is my editor of choice..
Google can get you links
g'luck!!
mthedford - February 7, 2006 09:44 PM (GMT)
I've installed it on my PC. It is quite helpful in creating custom scripts for things I can't script in windows "CMD Speak".
Milo - February 9, 2006 04:48 PM (GMT)
We haven't put it on any laptops, but when it goes on an individual PC, you have access to all of the MKS tools. To run scripts, you invoke one of their shells. Works fine. Also, on our production servers we run MS-DOS batch files (still possible in Windows Advanced Server 2000) which then invoke an MKS shell to run UNIX scripts.
JayJay - February 10, 2006 12:58 AM (GMT)
Okay I finally installed it and it works great, in fact it works better than it does on our server, couple of the quirks are fixed.
The only thing it doesn't seem to want to do is use the MKS find command instead of the NT find command. I can always give it the full path to that though so its fine. I am also going to try some of the other software you guys suggested and see ..
Thanks
Milo - March 2, 2006 05:25 PM (GMT)
JayJay:
You wrote:
> The only thing it doesn't seem to want to do is use the MKS find
> command instead of the NT find command. I can always give it the
> full path to that though so its fine.
You should adjust your PATH setting. I found a Sun website that said that the MKS portion in PATH should go before any portions for the Windows system directories. Portions of PATH for Java come last. When we reinstalled MKS this morning on a server, we checked and found that MKS 8.7 install correctly placed the MKS portions into the beginning of PATH.
If your PATH is set up correctly, you should get this:
C:\>find
Usage: find directory ... expression
C:\>C:\winnt\system32\find
FIND: Parameter format not correct
C:\>