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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Running arch on Windows


From: James Blackwell
Subject: Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Running arch on Windows
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 19:28:55 -0500

In lists.arch.users, you wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 04:26:07PM +0000, Pat Galea wrote:
>> I've been playing with Microsoft Services for Unix today (it's free 
>> now).
> You mean gratis.
>
>  http://unxutils.sourceforge.net is free.
>
>
>> With a moderate amount of hacking, arch works.
> Please update http://gnuarch.org/bin/view/Main/NativeWindowsSupport

Arch doesn't work well enough under win32, to declare it as "supported".

The win32 syscalls have a limited path that arch doesn't get along with.

Maybe that can change with cygwin and/or unxutils are using nt system
calls.


        
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