David Christensen wrote:
Paul Dorman wrote:
I've been racking my brains trying to read keystrokes in a Cygwin
shell with ActiveState Perl.
I recently evaluated Microsoft Services for Unix (SFU), which aims to
provide a Unix subsystem and GNU tool chain running on top of the Windows
kernel:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/interopmigration/unix/sfu/default.mspx
Here is a commercial company that is closely aligned with SFU (I don't quite
understand the relationship):
http://www.interix.com/
As I understand, the folks at interix.com developed Interix 2.0,
originally known as OpenNT, until it was taken over by M$ around I
believe version 3.0. From Rodney's comments, it seems they are still
involved in the ongoing development and maintenance.
I'm reasonably certain SFU uses ActiveState Perl. I don't know if it's the
standard ActiveState Perl we can download and install for Win32, or a
special SFU build.
I just re-ran the installer for SFU. Right at the bottom is the option
to install "ActiveState PERL".
Unfortunately, I ran into some deal-breaker issues with SFU:
1. SFU sets a number of environment variables (including PATH), which
broke Cygwin Perl's ability to make modules.
2. SFU uses Unix line endings by default. I need tools that work with
DOS line endings. The SFU developers think that line endings
should be dealt with on a per-application basis, not by the
tool chain. Some tools do accept both Unix and DOS line endings.
The SFU developers were responsive to my request to get SFU Bash
working with DOS line endings, but it isn't ready yet:
http://www.interix.com/tools/tm.aspx?m=9028
Oh, so that's *YOU* I've been talking to on the interix.com forums. :-)
Welcome to the club. I went first down the Interix path and ran into a
mountain ("brick wall" doesn't begin to express the severity of my
problems). So now I'm back to Cygwin, which /works/.
(Any replies to this part, please TITTTL)
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