I had used UWIN for a while a few years ago, when I was on Windows and needed UNIX functionality: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UWIN http://en.wikipedia.org/wik

I had used UWIN for a while a few years ago, when I was on Windows and needed UNIX functionality: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UWIN http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UWIN It was originally written by David Korn, creator of the Korn shell. Can't forget "ksh -o vi", which let you edit your command history with vi commands. (It is like "set -o vi" on bash these days.) I used to use it as the last line in my .kshrc. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Korn_(computer_scientist) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Korn_(computer_scientist) Not sure where UWIN stands in comparison to Gow and Cygwin but it was somewhat useful. IIRC, it was at least more than a collection of UNIX utilities. The installation procedure (from an AT&T site) was a bit of a pain but doable.