Hi Joe,

You can download Windows Services for Unix 3.5 here:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/sfu/default.mspx

Brian Grayson

Joe Walter wrote:

> Thanks Colin.
>
> That sounds like a good approach - creating windows verions of the unix 
> commands
> that is.
>
> I might be able to pull that off without making a full time job of getting 
> these
> tools running on UV/Windows.
>
> Unfortunately, I just discovered some code that tries to create temp files for
> each user 'on-the-fly' using unix commands to delete, create and move these 
> temp
> files around so I'll have to sort all that stuff out and I just keep finding
> more and more little "gotcha's" about trying to get this rig to fly on
> UV/Windows but I'm gonna persist at it for a few days at least and see if I 
> can
> get it to run.
>
> joe
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alfke, Colin
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 3:03 PM
> > To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org
> > Subject: RE: [U2] Software development - MVTools
> >
> > Sorry, I haven't used MVTools. There are a couple of things
> > you can do:
> >
> > 1. Create a windows version of the unix commands. Example:
> > ED LVDIR WHOAMI.BAT
> > Top of "WHOAMI.BAT"
> > 001: ECHO %USERNAME%
> > This is a bat file in the directory that gets shelled to that
> > provides the user name.
> >
> > 2. Load something like MKS Toolkit or Cygwin that will
> > emulate unix for you.
> >
> > 3. Tweak the shell commands as required.
> >
> > Good luck
> > Colin Alfke
> > Calgary, Canada
> >
> > >-----Original Message-----
> > >From: Joe Walter
> > >
> > [snip]
> > >
> > >i'm having big trouble getting them installed and running on
> > Universe.
> > >it quickly became apparent to me that they were writtin to work on
> > >Universe running on top of Unix not UV/Windows. it's trying to shell
> > >out and execute 'whoami' for instance.
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