Re: Little Question

Alright thanks for your input.  I know that I recently installed WinAvr.  I
think that is part of GNU software.  So it could have been for that because
you need to do make files which I have not learned yet how to do.  But
anyways thanks for your time.



On 5/20/06, Bob Proulx <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Johnny Fumagalli wrote:
> > I don't remember installing Unix commands on my Windows machine.  I was
> > wondering if you could help me figure out what programs you made that
> would
> > have installed this.  I am not mad at this at all because I do like
> Linux a
> > lot better than Windows but I just don't remember installing anything
> like
> > this and I have no log of it either.
>
> Unfortunately you have not described what the "this" is that you are
> talking about.  Which makes it very hard to help you.  Programs such
> as cat, head, tail, wc?  In any case none of the programs known here
> would have installed other programs.
>
> Did you install one of the ports of the GNU software on your machine
> such as Cygwin or another port project?  There have been several.
>
> The GNU Project is a project to make a complete free operating system.
> The components of it such as coreutils are also free software and have
> been ported to a number of platforms including MS-Windows.  However
> the GNU Project does not make binaries for MS-Windows available.  If
> you have binary versions of the old textutils programs then it must
> have been compiled by you from source or come to you from a third
> party who compiled those binaries.  Beyond that I can't guess further.
>
> You sent your message to the bug-textutils address which implies that
> you are looking at some old documentation.  Quite a while back all of
> fileutils, shellutils and texututils were combined into coreutils.  So
> if you have something installed referencing textutils it must have
> been some time ago.
>
> Bob
>