On Oct 6, 1:41pm, Don Harrop wrote: > http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/interix/default.asp > > Has anyone checked out this software for NT systems yet? It supposedly > runs a unix shell capable of running unix programs and scripts natively on > an NT box. Wonder how well it really does? I'd like to know too. I had occasion to try out Cygwin recently and was quite impressed. It gives you a terminal window running bash and tools like make, gcc, gdb, etc. worked as expected. It's really cool to be able to take your Unix sources to a windows box and type ``./configure; make'' and just have it work. Cygwin is available from http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/.