Re: [foxboro] AW70 and Cygwin

Corey,

An AW70 uses the unix commands, located in d:\nutc\bin and d:\nutc\mksnt, a
lot for the day to day running
of the machine. So be careful when you install another package that install
a different version of the same
commands (ls/grep/sort/rm...). Some commands in the Cygwin toolset expect
different arguments compared to
the Nutcracker toolset. So this might cause serious problems for the
standard scripts on the AW70.

There are some very good native Windows tools to control the machine. Go to
http://www.sysinternals.com/ and get
the PSTools package. These tools are a must for doing any serious Windows
work. Actually almost all the tools
mentioned on that site are nice to have. Also VNC
(http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/) is nice to remotely control
your desktop. And for making backups nothing beats Norton Ghost. 

Marco.


-----Original Message-----
From: Corey R Clingo [mailto:clingoc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: woensdag 16 juli 2003 16:29
To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [foxboro] AW70 and Cygwin



Hello all,

We just received our very first AW70 (the NT 4.0 one), and I was wondering
if anyone had attempted to install the Cygwin toolset on one.  It appears to
have some other Unix cross-dressing environment (Nutcracker?), but from what
I've seen of it, Cygwin appears to be newer & better.

I don't foresee problems as long as the PATH variable is appropriately set
(with the possible exception of two Unix shells fighting over the ".sh" file
association), but I wanted to make sure.

We plan to use this as an OPC integrator only -- no CP hosting or other
heavy lifting (OK, well maybe doodling in Foxdraw...)

Thanks,

Corey Clingo
BASF Corp.


 
 
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