MKS Toolkit

MKS Toolkit is a software package produced and maintained by MKS Inc. that provides a Unix environment for scripting, connectivity and porting Unix and Linux software to both 32- and 64-bit Microsoft Windows systems.

In 1999 MKS acquired a company based in Fairfax, Virginia, called Datafocus Inc. The Datafocus product N"u"TCRACKER had included the MKS Toolkit since 1994 as part of its Unix compatibility technology and hence the purchase was a natural fit for MKS.

Overview

The MKS Toolkit products offer functionality in the following areas:

* Various command shell environments - Bourne shell, Korn shell, Bash, C shell, Tcl shell
* Traditional Unix commands (400+) - grep, awk, sed, vi, ls, kill, [http://www.mkssoftware.com/products/tk/commands.asp and more...]
* Windows specific commands (70+) - registry, shortcut, desktop, wcopy, db, dde, userinfo, [http://www.mkssoftware.com/products/tk/commands.asp?product=Win32 and more...]
* Tape/Archive commands - tar, cpio, pax, zip, bzip2, ar, ...
* Connectivity clients/servers - ssh, remote shell, telnet, xterm, kterm, rexec, rlogin, [http://www.mkssoftware.com/products/tk/commands.asp?product=cs and more...]
* Porting APIs - including fork(), signals, alarms, threads, [http://www.mkssoftware.com/docs/api_index.asp and more...]
* Graphical porting APIs - X, ncurses, Motif, OpenGL, ...

Systems Supported

MKS Toolkit products support both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Microsoft Windows systems:

* Windows Server 2003
* Windows XP
* Windows 2000
* Windows NT 4.0
* Windows Me
* [http://www.mkssoftware.com/support/versions.asp More information...]

External links

* [http://www.mks.com MKS Home]
* [http://www.mkssoftware.com/products MKS Toolkit Products Page]
* [http://www.mkssoftware.com/docs MKS Toolkit man Pages]

See also

* Interix
* Cygwin
* UnxUtils