MKS Toolkit
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MKS Toolkit is a software package produced and maintained by
developers, power users, enterprise developers and interoperability are available, with the enterprise developer edition being the most complete.[2]
Before PTC, MKS Toolkit was owned by
Windows Services for Unix, but later dropped in favor of Interix
after Microsoft purchased the latter company.
Version 10.0 was current as of October 2017[update].[3]
Overview
The MKS Toolkit products offer functionality in the following areas:
- Command shell environments of Bourne shell, KornShell, Bash, C shell, Tcl shell
- Traditional Unix commands (400+), including
grep,awk,sed,vi,ls,kill[4] - Windows specific commands (70+), including
registry,shortcut,desktop,wcopy,db,dde,userinfo[5] - Tape and archive commands, including
tar,cpio,pax,zip,bzip2,ar - Remote connectivity, including rlogin[6]
- Porting APIs, including
fork(),signals,alarms,threads[7] - Graphical porting APIs, including X, ncurses, Motif, OpenGL
Supported operating systems
MKS Toolkit products support all
x64 of the Microsoft Windows operating systems.[8] There is some loss of functionality running IA-32 versions on Windows 9x.[9] Earlier versions ran on MS-DOS and compatible operating systems.[10]
See also
References
- CRN.
- ^ MKS Toolkit instruction booklet, version 8.6
- ^ "Convert UNIX and Linux to Windows with PTC MKS Toolkit". MKS. Retrieved 10 October 2017.
- ^ "MKS Toolkit Commands: vi, sed, grep, awk, tar, gnu binutils, sh, ksh, csh, bash Command".
- ^ "MKS Toolkit Commands: Windows Specific Commands".
- ^ "MKS Toolkit Commands: Commands in the Connectivity Suite Runtime".
- ^ "MKS Toolkit: Reference Pages: MKS Toolkit UNIX APIs Reference".
- ^ "MKS Customer Support: Supported Versions".
- ^
"MKS Toolkit Release Notes, Version 8.0". MKS Software, Inc. January 2002. Retrieved November 22, 2015.
In addition, because of the lack of certain operating features on Windows 95/98/Me, some MKS Toolkit UNIX APIs run in degraded mode (or return without doing anything) on those platforms.
- ^
Crawford, Frank (October 1991), "Making Real Use of a PC.", Australian UNIX Systems User Group Newsletter, 12 (4/5): 41–43, retrieved November 22, 2015,
the basic utilities supplied with MS-DOS leave something to be desired. ... there are a number of packages available that can make your PC almost into a UNIX look-a-like. ... One of these packages is the MKS Toolkit.
Reviews
- Mark Olsen (1989). "Computers and the Humanities, MKS Toolkit: UNIX Tools under MS-DOS". Computers and the Humanities. 23 (3) (3 ed.): 267–270. S2CID 5140584.
- Emmett Dulaney (2004-04-02). "Review: Evaluating MKS Toolkit for Developers 8.6". Dr. Dobb's.
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