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Emulators for a UNIX program

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by jbarry47

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Hi all:
I have Win98SE on my machine. I have acquired a really nice program, but it has one small draw-back- it is for UNIX. Does anyone know where I cac locate an emulator for this? It can either be for MSDOS or Windows. It could even be in C, or C++ source-not a problem.
Thanks

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by ttlanhil

it all depends on what the program is. if it's a perl program, grab ActivePerl
if it just needs a few tools like sed, awk, scp, whatever, you can find ported commandline tools. if you need something more complex, youcould try cygwin, it's a *nix layer inside windows, providing a *nix file structure and a POSIX layer, with a great many tools available. it's from red hat.

by vford1

Depends on what you need to do. If you can run it on unix and display on windows an X server is what you need. To port the application, your best bet is to use Cygwin from sources.redhat.com. Cygwin provides a very good unix like layer for windows that makes porting a breeze and includes x libraries so you don't have to change the display code. There are no emulators that I know of for unix platforms on windows, so you will need to port the application if you want to run it on the windows machine.

by fredjansen

If you have the source, you can recompile the program for windows, GNU C/C++ compilers are
easity available on the net (FREE compilers)

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