Probably the first place you should look for more GNU tools is at Cygwin toolset. The toolset is a port of the GNU tools to the Windows API, as well as a set of libraries that allow Unix programs to compile to Windows with little or no modification. The project is at http://www.cygwin.com/ Michael Main <main@cs.colorado.edy> has collected together ports of various Unix programming environments and languages to Windows for classes that he teaches. See http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~main/plcd.

Yes. Right click on a shortcut of the program -> properties -> compatibility and check Run in compatibility mode.

Which operating system you decide to use should depend on what features you need. For example, if you are already using IIS, ASP, VBScript, Windows Media, Microsoft Access, Microsoft SQL Server, or Visual InterDev, and you don't have the time to learn Unix-based solutions, you'll have to choose a Windows NT or Windows 2000-based host. Just because your desktop is Windows-based doesn't mean you should use a Windows host.

Windows NT (both the Workstation and Server) is a 32-bit Operating System. It is a preemptive, multi-tasking Operating System, which means that the Operating System controls allocation of CPU time, not the applications, stopping one application from hanging the OS. NT supports multiple CPU's giving true Multi-tasking, using symmetrical multiprocessing, meaning the processors share all tasks, as opposed to asymmetrical multiprocessing, where the OS uses one CPU and the applications another.

Yes, we have ported several of the DODS clients to Windows and they are available as a beta release. Please take a look at our Windows Port page.

We believe that if you are designing websites using a Microsoft product, you should have it hosted on an NT platform. Unix is an excellent platform. But, when it comes to Active Server Pages (ASP), Back Office, Windows 2000, FrontPage 2002, Access and SQL Server - there is just no substitute for the power and stability of Windows 2003.

All of our servers are UNIX-based (RedHat). We do not operate any servers on the Windows NT platform. [top]

Yes, but the capabilities differ with the various versions of UNIX. UNIX usually offers TCP/IP networking which allows your UNIX system communicate with other computers. UNIX can act as a web server, an e-mail server or, in some versions, as a node on a Windows network. If these options are unavailable in your UNIX installation, we typically setup a serial network between Windows and UNIX using a utility called UUCP.

Yes. Make sure that your DISPLAY environment variable points to the machine running MI/X, i.e. set DISPLAY=hostname:0.0 You can then run xclock, oclock, etc. on a PC running NT or 95 instead of using a remote UNIX host.

Updates, upgrades, and future features - these questions involve updates, upgrades, and other future features.

To build the ACE library or an ACE application on Windows NT and be able to execute the resulting program(s) on Windows 95 or 98, be sure that your config.h file includes the line: #define ACE_HAS_WINNT4 0 ACE comes "out of the box" ready to build for use in console programs or NT Services.

Yes. Both GangaBoy and Bung's GB Xchanger software work correctly under NT4, as long as you install the GIVEIO.SYS file.

All servers at TrustyWebHosting.com are Linux & Windows servers running CentOS 5 & Windows Server 2003. Customers are being setup on (Woodcrest or Clovertown) Dual processor 1.34Ghz 8 core (2 x 8MB cache) with minimum 6 GB of memory. We are running a raid1 setup with Sata2 2000GB drives.

Yes. Many low cost hosting companies will not offer Windows NT servers, which greatly limits the features they can offer. With Intergrow you can have PHP and MySQL on either platform or ODBC, Cold Fusion, SQL Databases, and ASP on Windows.

William Cheung (wcheung@ee.ubc.ca) has developed a program called WinRSH/WinRSH32 - Remote Shell for Windows 1.6 WinRSH contains a very simple user interface to allow a Window's user to run a program remotely on your workstation using either the RSH daemon or the REXEC daemon. The results of the remote execution are then displayed in a scrollable window. WinRSH - Remote Shell for Windows 1.6 WinRSH32 - Remote Shell for Windows 1.6 Written by William Cheung (wcheung@ee.ubc.

This notebook works with Windows-98, windows-ME, and Windows-2000, but currently will not support Window-NT yet. ( Linux coming soon ). Please ready your notebook serial number call our technical support. They will help you resolve this problem by different way. May ask you send your notebook to service center. Please check your DVD decode program to make sure it is a PowerDVD 3.0. Please do not use any early version program, may give an error message.

This will bring up a box with icons for your various services. One of them should be a little ftp ''folder.'' Double click on this. You will then have to select the server (there should only be one) Select that and then choose ''Properties'' from the menu and choose the ''directories'' tab along the top. There will be an option at the bottom saying ''Directory listing style.'' Choose the ''Unix'' type, not the ''MS-DOS'' type.

Just because your code runs on UNIX does not mean that it will run unmodified on Windows. In our experience, your code may really have a latent bug (or non-portable code) which simply does not manifest on UNIX. To debug such situations: Set the "stop always" state for the Access Violation exception in the Debug/Exceptions menu. On a segmentation violation, a pop-up dialog box will let you launch the debugger at the location of the fault.

Install Windows 95/98 first, after that FreeBSD. FreeBSD's boot manager will then manage to boot Win95/98 and FreeBSD. If you install Windows 95/98 second, it will boorishly overwrite your boot manager without even asking. If that happens, see the next section.

When I installed Windows NT on my PC9 on the first reboot, it rebooted to Invalid Page Fault in the NTOSKERNEL.EXE error "Blue Screen of Death" memory error screen.

The Unix Pathway Tools use the X-Windows windowing system that allows other Unix computers to display the Pathway Tools running on a central server. X Emulators exist that allow this remote display to work on Microsoft Windows computers as well. Not all emulators work equally well, though. Hummingbird Exceed is a commercial product. A Demo version can be downloaded, to be tried for free for 30 days. With version 7.0, SRI has had good luck.

You need the the Transfer formats disc. It contains the data sets in ESRI export-file format, that you can import into ARC/INFO and use. Workstation ARC/INFO cannot read the PC ARC/INFO coverages on the ArcView disc directly.

Running DOS, go into the tools/ directory of your FreeBSD distribution and look for bootinst.exe. You run it like so: ...\TOOLS> bootinst.exe boot.bin Boot the FreeBSD boot floppy again and go to the Custom installation menu item. Choose Partition. Select the drive which used to contain your boot manager (likely the first one) and when you come to the partition editor for it, as the very first thing (e.g. do not make any changes) select (W)rite.