MKS Toolkit V 8.6.The 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. products provide scripting and porting tools to automate tasks and aid in migrating UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). applications to Windows. MKS Toolkit 8.6 includes enhancements to its user productivity, platform interoperability and application portability features, to allow users to improve operation in mixed UNIX-Windows environments. New features in MKS Toolkit 8.6 include: * MKS (Mortice Kern Systems Inc., Waterloo, Ontario, www.mks.com) A software company that specializes in programming tools and utilities for a variety of platforms. For example, its RCS system for Windows, OS/2 and Unix is a version control software package. KornShell performance improvements: Along with adding more features as listed in the ksh93 specification and providing the ability to save and restore the Kornshell environment the new MKS Kornshell claims performance gains of up to 200% in terms of initial start up as well as in running scripts and script based applications. * Addition of BASH: Customizing command shell operating environment In computing, an operating environment is the environment in which users run programs, whether in a command line interface, such as in MS-DOS or the Unix shell, or in a graphical user interface, such as in the Macintosh operating system. and executing UNIX scripts without translation is easier with MKS Toolkit 8.6 as the Bourne Bourne, town (1990 pop. 16,064), Barnstable co., SE Mass., crossed by Cape Cod Canal; settled 1627, inc. 1884. Bourne Bridge (1935), across the canal, made the town an entry point to Cape Cod and a resort and commercial center. Again Shell (bash) joins the existing Korn, C, and other shells within the product. * Enhanced UNIX to Windows connectivity suite: An up to date version of the Secure Shell service and utilities along with smartcard support for public key storage as well as a new service enhance the ability to connect to and from UNIX and Windows machines in an automated and secure way. * Support for newest Windows operating systems: The new version of the MKS Toolkit product family fully supports both Windows Server 2003 and the 64-bit Windows operating system on IA-64. * Support for 64-bit Files, etc.: large file support in all tools and APIs, sparse file support on NTFS (NT File System) An optional file system for Windows NT, 2000 and XP operating systems. NTFS is the more advanced file system, compared to FAT32. It improves performance and is required in order to implement numerous security and administrative features in the OS. . www.mkssoftware.com |
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