Unixkit-tiny

2011-02-17 00:00:00 +0000


These utilities were gleaned from:

http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net Source of most of the non-archiver stuff, plus the archivers ‘arc’, ‘arj’, ‘bzip2’, ‘gzip’, ‘tar’, ‘zip’ and ‘unzip’.

http://unxutils.sourceforge.net zsh (they call it sh.exe, but it’s apparently zsh), grep, find

http://upx.sourceforge.net/ UPX, used to compress binaries for the ‘tiny’ versions of this kit

http://www.activestate.com/ ActivePerl, featured in some versions of this kit

http://www.nano-editor.org/dist/v1.2/NT/nano-1.2.3.zip nano

http://www.thomer.com/vi/vi.html#versions xvi (here presented as ‘vi.exe’)

http://uemacs.tripod.com/nojavasc.html#BIN microemacs (here presented as “emacs.exe”)

http://www.rarlab.com/rar_add.htm unrar

http://www.fatsquirrel.org/veghead/software/windos/ more

and myself (J. L. Blank jlb@twu.net): Idea, packaging, clever use of ‘upx’ to compress binaries for the ‘tiny’ versions, and need for a simple Unixlike system I could carry around on my USB thumb-drive and take to Windows-using clients’… :)


NOTES ON THE ‘TINY’ VERSION:

This ‘tiny’ version has all the .exes and .dlls compressed by upx… well, all of those that don’t seem to screw up when compressed in this manner. :)

It also does not have: