From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/82978 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: UWIN? Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 09:40:11 +0200 Message-ID: <51BAC8DB.90509@wxs.nl> References: <000f01ce6898$a7e1e4c0$f7a5ae40$@net> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1371195652 1414 80.91.229.3 (14 Jun 2013 07:40:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 07:40:52 +0000 (UTC) To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri Jun 14 09:40:54 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UnOct-0001UN-4l for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Jun 2013 09:40:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2768F101F2; Fri, 14 Jun 2013 09:40:50 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 0jVx5rqV8bcC; Fri, 14 Jun 2013 09:40:48 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68B98101E9; Fri, 14 Jun 2013 09:40:48 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 982EB101E9 for ; Fri, 14 Jun 2013 09:40:46 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id kwNAkqngSc2K for ; Fri, 14 Jun 2013 09:40:45 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from filter1-til.mf.surf.net (filter1-til.mf.surf.net [194.171.167.217]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3D6C101E4 for ; Fri, 14 Jun 2013 09:40:45 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from smtp.ziggozakelijk.nl (D57D1DA2.static.ziggozakelijk.nl [213.125.29.162]) by filter1-til.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-9.4) with ESMTP id r5E7eY29013941 for ; Fri, 14 Jun 2013 09:40:45 +0200 X-Default-Received-SPF: pass (skip=loggedin (res=PASS)) x-ip-name=10.100.1.103; Original-Received: from [10.100.1.103] (unverified [10.100.1.103]) by pragma-net.nl (SurgeMail 6.3c2) with ESMTP id 7657-1713362 for ; Fri, 14 Jun 2013 09:40:34 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130509 Thunderbird/17.0.6 In-Reply-To: <000f01ce6898$a7e1e4c0$f7a5ae40$@net> X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-9 X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=213.125.29.162; country=NL; region=15; city=Zwolle; latitude=52.5058; longitude=6.0858; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=52.5058,6.0858&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 0RJM7EyTF - 2dab3ebe6219 - 20130614 (trained as not-spam) X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 194.171.167.217 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:82978 Archived-At: On 6/14/2013 2:46 AM, Bill Meahan wrote: > Out of curiosity, has anyone tried porting ConTeXt to the UWIN > environment? > > UWIN is very much like cygwin in being a "Unix on Windows" > environment. However, it is not based on GNU but is Real Unix code > from AT&T Bell Labs. Many of the utilities are simply the latest > versions of the original Version 7 Unix utilities, others are from > BSD, System III and System V. The shell is genuine ksh93, not pdksh > or bash/dash. There is a POSIX dll to provide a complete POSIX api. > This is AT&T's own, not the "POSIX subsystem" from Microsoft. The cc > command is a wrapper for Visual C, gcc or whatever you have. Instead > of the usual autoconf..configure..make..make install dance you can > use nmake. Just wondering: why are users using unix shells on windows for running tex? does it have advantages? Or is the availability of unix commands the main reason? Context (mkiv) itself does not rely on anything else than lua and that is provided by the engine itself. > I can run the usual Windows context with a bit of fiddling but it > would be nice to use the regular setuptex shell script et. al. You can try to port the setuptex script to ksh93; it's no problem to add that to the minimals then. Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________