On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 11:06 +0200, Maciej Sieczka wrote: > Hi > > Forgive my ignorance but I haven't seen any discussion about this on > GRASS lists yet. > > I have just read about Microsoft Windows Services for UNIX (SFU) [1] - > a UNIX subsystem that integrates with the Windows kernel as the Win32 > subsystem does. Unlike Cygwin which runs on top of the Windows shell as > an emulator, SFU implements a true UNIX peer to the Windows shell, > which provides better performance (I heard that GRASS happens to be > slow in Cygwin). > > I was wondering if SFU could be help for Windows GRASS users. > > SFU provides Korn and C shells, most UNIX core utilities, perl, python, > gcc etc. More are available from [2], eg. BASH.
Bah. :-) > A problem is that it doesn't work on Windows 9x, Windows XP Home or > Windows Vista. That's reason enough not to use it. > There's a detailed description of components and functionality on [3]. > > [1]http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=896c9688-601b-44f1-81a4-02878ff11778&displaylang=en > [2]http://www.interopsystems.com/tools/default.aspx > [3]http://www.softpanorama.org/Unixification/SFU/index.shtml Unfortunately, they've MSized it, making it less easy to use as a drop-in replacement. Some of the string handling functions require some extra "finesse" (eg. macros) to compile properly. I'm sure there's other differences. At least they're finally POSIX.1 compliant. Cygwin will hopefully be a thing of the past, soon. -- Brad Douglas <rez touchofmadness com> KB8UYR/6 Address: 37.493,-121.924 / WGS84 National Map Corps #TNMC-3785 _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list [email protected] http://grass.itc.it/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
