CPS 124/296.3
Fall 2001

Unix on Windows Machines

You will need two things to make your windows machine work like a Linux/Unix machine.

Cygwin, the unix-like shell for windows
NTemacs, emacs for windows

If you are running Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, or 2000, it is possible to set up an environment on your own machine that works like the computing environment available on the acpub clusters. This means that you can install a Unix like shell, Emacs, g++, OpenGL, and other tools.

Winzip

You will need winzip (or another archiving package) to download/install the software. Duke students can get a copy from OIT here.

Cygwin: A Unix Shell

The first software you will need to install is the Unix-like shell that enables the other software to work (at least g++ and opengl).

The shell is cygwin from Cygnus software. When you download from the website, you should get a choice of where to install from --- select Install from the Internet. Install into a directory of your choice. You can pick which applications you want to install but it is easiest to just get them all (click the next box). When this has finished you are all set, you have the unix/cygwin shell installed.

NTEmacs: An editor

The main web page for NT emacs, but files are mirrored here. As of fall 2001, the current version of ntemacs is 20.7.

Get the full-binary distribution, that's what is mirrored. Unzip it (automatic if you have winzip set up properly) and extract all the files into a directory of your choosing. After extracting, you can run the program bin/addpm.exe in the emacs-20.7/bin directory to add an emacs link to Program menu.
 

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