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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.maui.com!news-in.iadfw.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.mathworks.com!solaris.cc.vt.edu!news.nrv.net!usenet From: Troy Settle <pitlord@nrv.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: UNIX OS Freeware Date: Fri, 01 Nov 1996 18:21:27 -0500 Organization: All About Computers Lines: 19 Message-ID: <327A85F7.531D@nrv.net> References: <55bqlg$5ub@news.ipass.net> Reply-To: pitlord@nrv.net NNTP-Posting-Host: port-29.server5.nrv.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win95; I) eruth@ipass.net wrote: > > I am in need of some kind of UNIX Operating System emulation software > that will run under DOS/WINDOWS/ WINDOWS 95. > > I am not looking for a "real" unix os, just some kind of shell that > emulates all (or most) of the primary UNIX commands. check out http://www.windows95.com They have a section for unix ports. Some of it works, some of it doesn't. I've had limited success with a tcsh port, and a little more sucess with a bash port. as for your basic file utils, some packages work, some don't. it's a trial and error situation, as I can't remember what was what. Good luck pretending your winblows box is a unix box. :) --Troy