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<h3>NT Versions of UNIX and TCP/IP Utilities</h3>
<p>Where is..... </p>
<p><u>1 Tcl/Tk</u> </p>
<p>The latest location is at <a
href="ftp://mm-ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/multimedia/winnt">Berkeley</a>
A mirror of TKNT3.6 is available at <a
href="ftp://ftp.aud.alcatel.com/tcl/distrib">Alcatel</a>. </p>
<p><a href="ftp://mm-ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/multimedia/winnt">Tk
4.0</a> is also available. Expect is not supported under NT. </p>
<p>- Thanks to <a
href="mailto:chaffee@bugs-bunny.cs.berkeley.edu">Gordon Chaffee</a>
</p>
<p><u>2 NIST and USNO Time Client</u> </p>
<p><a href="http://www.somar.com">Somar</a> (from Mr. Ramos, get
it?) has one utility as shareware. They published a number of
other useful tools as well. </p>
<p>Tardis can read the time off of a remote NTP server, this is
not the protocol that it delivers in turn for you to use with
local clients on a LAN. Also it does not use the NTP protocol,
but the old RFC 868 TIME protocol. NTP is more accurate and won't
allow the time to go backwards (and cause file dates, etc. to get
messed up). </p>
<p>There is also <a href="mailto:avents@btco.com">Todd Aven's </a>NTPDate
program. From its README: </p>
<blockquote>
<p><cite>NTPDATE.EXE is an NT (Intel) port of the ntpdate
program which comes as part of the xntp distribution. NTPDATE
will query one or more NTP servers and set the local clock
based on a statistical interpolation of the 'real' time.</cite>
</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Apparently <a href="ftp://louie.udel.edu/pub/ntp">xntp</a> has
been ported to NT. Thanks to <a
href="mailto:aroby@cix.compulink.co.uk">Anthony Roby</a>. </p>
<p><u>3 NFS Client and Server, Samba</u> </p>
<p>If ever something needed to be put in a FAQ: Check out <a
href="http://lake.canberra.edu.au/pub/samba/">Samba's Web Site</a>,
(or you can <a href="ftp://nimbus.anu.edu.au/pub/tridge/samba">download
it directly</a>) for a great GNU freeware package that allows
your UNIX machine to participate in a LAN Manager network. It
consists of a pair of services which can be run on a UNIX machine
to allow said machine to export its local file system and
printers as SMB shares. In other words, if you build Samba and
install it on a UNIX box, your lanman clients (including Windows
for Workgroups and Windows NT) will be able to access the file
system and printers on the UNIX machine in a manner you
configure. Thanks to <a
href="http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Web/People/johnmil/">John L. Miller</a>
</p>
<p>There are several commercial NFS versions: </p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.intergraph.com">Intergraph</a> </li>
<li><a href="http://www.netmanage.com">NetManage</a> </li>
<li><a href="http://www.bws.com/admin/bw32nfs.htm">Beame and
Whiteside</a> </li>
</ul>
<p>There are probably others. Thanks to <a
href="mailto:csawyer@eciad.bc.ca">Cal Sawyer</a>. </p>
<p><u>4 FTP Client, FTP Server, Ping, Traceroute, Telnet Client,
Telnet Server</u> </p>
<p>All of these are built-in to NT. Traceroute can be found in
%systemroot%\system32\tracert.exe. <b>Security Warning: </b>Don't
overlook the built-in "guest" account. If you set up
FTP server, anyone can log into the guest account by giving any
name/any password. Fix this by "disabling" guest
account under User Admin. </p>
<p>An excellent FTP client called WS_FTP32 is available from many
archives including <a
href="ftp://ftp.cica.indiana.edu/pub/pc/win3/winsock">CICA</a>. </p>
<p>A GUI Ping, WSPING32, is available at <a
href="http://www.bhs.com">BHS</a>. </p>
<p>Ataman produces <a href="ftp://rmii.com/pub2/ataman/products">Rlogind,
Rexcd and Telnetd Services (for Intel)</a>, written by <a
href="mailto:brian@ataman.com">C. Brian Sturgill </a>, President
of Ataman. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.bws.com/">Beame and Whiteside</a> also
produces a Telnet Server. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.seattlelab.com">Seattle Labs'</a> also has
a Telnet Server, as well as several other related packages (job
scheduler, serial port server) that will be useful to anyone who
needs a TelnetD. Check it out. Thanks to <a
href="mailto:don@seattlelab.com">Donald D. Meek</a> of Seattle
Labs. </p>
<p>A Telnet server for Windows NT 3.5 by Software Innovations
will be available soon (call 1-800-946-6688 for more
information). </p>
<p><u>5 NNTP Server</u> </p>
<p><a href="mailto:Coffler@jeck.wa.com">Jeff Croffler</a> has an
excellent NNTP server for available at both a <a
href="http://www.net-shopper.co.uk/software/nt/nntp/index.htm">primary</a>
(info and program) and <a
href="ftp://ftp.wa.com/pub/local/ntnews">alternate</a> (program
only) site. </p>
<p><u>6 DNS/BIND</u> </p>
<p>Microsoft supplies a port of DNS in the Resource Kit .
Unfortunately, it does not work very well. NT 4.0 will have DNS
built-in.</p>
<p>The current alternative is using a DNS/BIND port from <a
href="http://www.metainfo.com">Metainfo</a>, or <a
href="http://www.netmanage.com">NetManage</a>, or <a
href="http://www.cci.net">Corporate Computer, Inc</a>. </p>
<p><u>7 SMTP and POP Daemon</u> </p>
<p>So far, five have been discovered. There must be others: </p>
<ul>
<li>A popular shareware version called <a
href="http://www.net-shopper.co.uk/software/ntmail/index.htm">NTMAIL</a>
is available, written by <a
href="mailto:brian@net-shopper.co.uk">Brian Dorricott</a>
</li>
<li>Another version can be found at <a
href="ftp://ftp.metrics.com/smtp">Metrics</a>. If you
need more information, send <a
href="mailto:winsmtp@wildside.kwnet.on.ca">e-mail</a> or
ask for a <a
href="mailto:info-winsmtp@wildside.kwnet.on.ca">description</a>.
</li>
<li><a href="http://www.ie.com">Information Electronics </a>has
several mail gateway products including SMTP, UUCP, NNTP,
POP3, Microsoft Mail, Lotus Notes, QuickMail (and
others). Thanks to <a href="mailto:tm02109@po3.cobe.com">Tate
Moore</a> . </li>
<li>Also a secure post.office program is available from <a
href="http://www.software.com">Software.Com Inc</a>.
Thanks to <a href="mailto:blandry@questar.com">Bill
Landry</a>. </li>
<li><a href="http://www.connectsoft.com/products/email.html">ConnectSoft</a>
has fairly complete e-mail router between MCI Mail,
CompuServe, MAPI, Netware MHS, the Internet, GEnie,
X.400, and America Online </li>
</ul>
<p><u>8 Perl</u> </p>
<p>At <a href="ftp://ftp.intergraph.com/pub/win32/perl">Intergraph</a>
there is a free version of Perl version 4.0. Some very useful NT
specific extensions were added, especially with regards to
reading and writing the Registry. </p>
<p>There is finally a <a href="ftp://ntperl.hip.com/ntperl/">Version
5</a> of perl commissioned by Microsoft. If you want further
announcements, you can subscribe to <a
href="mailto:majordomo@mail.hip.com">ntperl Mailing List</a> (put
'subscribe ntperl' or 'subscribe ntperl-announce' in the body).
For more info, contact <a href="mailto:Dick_Hardt@hip.com">Dick
Hardt</a> at hip communications Inc (604-685-0124, FAX:
604-654-9881) , or <a href="http://www.hip.com/info/">Hip's Web
site</a>. Thanks to <a href="mailto:joc@netaxs.com">Joseph
Casadonte</a>. </p>
<p><u>9 Listserv</u> </p>
<p>LISTSERV is a commercial product made by <a
href="http://www.lsoft.com/listserv.html">l-soft</a>. </p>
<p><a href="mailto:brian@net-shopper.co.uk">Brian Dorricott</a>'s
<a href="http://www.net-shopper.co.uk/software/ntmail/index.htm">NTMAIL</a>
also has listserv functionality. </p>
<p>Also, you may want to look at <a
href="http://directory.net/ipswitch">Ipswitch's Web Site</a> or
send <a href="mailto:info@ipswitch.com">e-mail</a> (personal,
non-automated response) for a description of their product. </p>
<p><u>10 Finger Daemon</u> </p>
<p>Finger32.exe is also available at <a href="http://www.bhs.com">BHS</a>.
</p>
<p>According to <a href="mailto:bluerose@umich.edu">Bobby L. Rose</a>,
you can find a better port at <a
href="ftp://pmip.dist.maricopa.edu/pub/nt/">Marcopia</a> (look
for fingerd-i386.zip). It is very much like the Unix finger
daemon. It uses individual .plan and .project files and can
enumerate users. </p>
<p><u>11 CRON</u> </p>
<p>There is of course a built in scheduler under NT called 'at'.
There is also a freeware <i>crond</i> service for NT called
ntcrnl.exe available at <a href="http://www.bhs.com">BHS</a> and
at a <a
href="ftp://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/pub/packages/ibmpc/windows3/nt">UK
Mirror</a>. Thanks to <a href="mailto:mark@swsoft.co.uk">Mark
Woollard</a>. </p>
<p><u>12 HTTP Server</u> </p>
<p>Well, of course, there is Microsoft <a
href="http://www.microsoft.com/infoserv" target="_top">Internet
Information Server</a>. It is bundled in NT 4.0 Server, starting
with the Beta 2 general distribution.</p>
<p>Of course, <a href="http://home.netscape.com">Netscape</a>
also has a series of commercial servers. Their support for NT has
been excellent.</p>
<p>Anyone interested in an HTTP Server for NT should also check
out <a href="http://www.emwac.ed.ac.uk/">EMWAC</a>'s Internet
Toolchest. It is <b>the</b> starting point. Having said that,
here are some alternatives. </p>
<p>First, the freeware: EMWAC's HTTP Server is supplied in the NT
Resource Kit. </p>
<p><a href="http://website.ora.com">Website</a> from O'Reilly and
Assoc.supports CGI, and Win-cgi, which allows you to run 16 bit
windows applications. </p>
<p><cite>"I have done a lot of work with VB in this way and
its really nice."</cite>- <a
href="mailto:daler@crnstn.spk.wa.us">Dale E. Reed Jr</a>. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.process.com/prodinfo/purvdata.htm">Purveyor</a>,
(based upon the EMWAC server) from <a
href="http://www.process.com/">Process Software</a> has a 30 day
evaluation copy. </p>
<p>There is also the <a href="http://wwwserver.itl.saic.com/">SAIC
HTTP-server</a>. </p>
<blockquote>
<p>"We used to be running the EMWAC-server but we
changed to SAIC HTTP because it has more features when it
comes to allowing/disallowing access to specific www-pages.
It also has some other nice features which the free
EMWAC-server lacks (I really like the EMWAC-server, but i
think SAIC's is better)." <a
href="http://www.pol.umu.se/html/ac/hemsida.htm">Arne
Carlsson</a> </p>
</blockquote>
<p>There is also a <a
href="http://oradb1.jinr.dubna.su/Software/ORALink/">gateway
between Oracle and an NT Webserver</a>. Thanks to <a
href="http://oradb1.jinr.dubna.su/Albert/">Albert Rybalkin</a>. </p>
<p><u>13 X Client and Server</u> </p>
<p>The r6 <b><i>client</i></b> can be found at <a
href="ftp://microlib.cc.utexas.edu/microlib/nt/x11r6">U. of Texas</a>.
To quote <a href="mailto:loflin@emx.cc.utexas.edu">Don Loflin</a>,
the Microlib/NT librarian: </p>
<blockquote>
<p>Please note that x11r6bin.tar.Z includes Windows NT
(Intel) binaries only for the X clients included in the
standard x11r6 distribution, which can be found on ftp.x.org
and its mirrors. There is no X server for NT in the package,
nor is there an xterm for NT. </p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote>
<p>To unpack x11r6bin.tar.Z, you'll need a 'compress' and
'tar' program for NT. Check the microlib/nt/gnu directory for
suitable NT/Intel versions. </p>
</blockquote>
<p>There also commercial versions from: </p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.hummingbird.com/products/NT.HTML">Hummingbird</a>'s
eXceed </li>
<li><a href="http://www.digital.com">DEC</a>'s eXcursion </li>
<li><a href="http://www.starnet.com">Starnet</a>'s xwin (for
Win32s). Thanks to David Robinson.@@@ </li>
<li>There is the shareware pc-xdemo.zip, that apparently has
performance problems. </li>
</ul>
<p><u>14 Displaying Windows applications on X servers</u> </p>
<p><a href="http://www.tek.com">Tektronix</a> has come up with an
innovative product that lets you display Windows applications on
an X server. The product, <a
href="http://www.tek.com/Network_Displays/Products/windd.html">Win
DD</a>, places a lot of hooks into the operating system that
translate MS-Windows messages into the X protocol. The problem:
there may be so many hooks that the service packs (maintenance
releases) will not be compatible. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.connectsoft.com/products/xwin.html">ConnectSoft</a>
is about to release "Xwindows Connection" software that
will allow you to login to an NT system from a Unix X system/term
and run MS-Windows apps and display them on the Xwindow System.
Thanks to <a href="mailto:btadlock@ti.com">Bob Tadlock</a>, </p>
<p>Citrix may have a similar product (305) 755-0559. </p>
<p>There is also a <a
href="http://www.fim.uni-linz.ac.at/win32/remdesk.htm">Remote
Desktop</a>, which is not X, but at least allows remote viewing
of the desktop. Thanks to <a
href="mailto:b.backhaus@dortmund.netsurf.de">Bernd Backhaus</a>. </p>
<p><u>15 SendMail, BLAT</u> </p>
<p>blat for NT can be found at the <a
href="ftp://press.southern.edu/ftp/public/WindowsNT/Internet">College
Press</a>, or <a href="http://simtel.coast.net">SimTel</a>.
Thanks to <a href="mailto:james@press.southern.edu">James Nelson</a>
and <a href="mailto:djgruber@simtel.coast.net">Dave Gruber</a>. </p>
<p><u>16 Bash</u> </p>
<p>bash can be found at <a
href="ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/micro/pc-stuff/winnt/">Sunsite</a>
(look for the bash_nt-xxx directory). Here is the announcement: </p>
<blockquote>
<p>Mountain Math Software announces the Beta site release of
a port of `bash' the `born again shell' to Windows NT 3.5.
This port is based on GNU code and uses some of the Downhill
Project code but it is solely the responsibility of Mountain
Math Software. </p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote>
<p>Although this is a somewhat crippled and not fully
compatible `bash' it is still immensely superior to
`cmd.exe'. There are many things one needs to do, especially
in working with large software projects, that require a fully
functioning command line shell. This port of `bash' is a
freely distributable (under the GNU General Public License)
shell that meets that need. </p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote>
<p>There are three archives: </p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote>
<p>bash_nt-1.14.2_bin_tar.gz -- executables and installation
instructions </p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote>
<p>bash_nt-1.14.2_src_tar.gz -- source code </p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote>
<p>bash_nt-1.14.2_doc_tar.gz -- postscript format
documentation </p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote>
<p>HTH, <a href="mailto:ubrown@pipeline.com">Ulysese Brown</a>
(ubrown@pipeline.com, ubrown@bug.com) </p>
</blockquote>
<p><u>17</u><a name="CShell"><u> C-Shell</u></a> </p>
<p><a href="mailto:hamilton@bix.com">Doug Hamilton</a> has an
excellent C-Shell for all architectures supported by NT. A
demonstration version is available at several archives. A
commercial version can also be ordered from Hamilton Laboratories
(Sudbury, MA, USA - +1-508-440-8307, FAX: +1-508-440-8308). Here
is an extract from the marketing material: </p>
<blockquote>
<p>Hamilton C shell recreates the original UNIX C shell and
utilities, adding numerous enhancements. Over 130 commands,
utilities and built-in functions including alias, cat, chmod,
cls, cp, cron, cut, diff, dirs, dskread, dskwrite, du, eval,
fgrep, grep, hashstat, head, history, kill, more, mt, mv,
popd, printf, ps, pushd, rm, sed, sleep, split, strings,
tabs, tail, tar (supports tape drives), tee, time, touch, tr,
uniq, vol, wc, whereis and xd. Designed from scratch.
Carefully follows all Windows NT and Windows95 (Chicago)
conventions. Fanatical quality. </p>
</blockquote>
<p><u>18 Kerberos</u> </p>
<p><a href="http://www.cybersafe.com">Cybersafe</a> (Redmond, WA,
USA) has a version. Thanks to <a
href="mailto:jeffo@mail.isc-br.com">Jeff Oberlander</a>. </p>
<p><u>19 EMACS</u> </p>
<p>Besides the GNU tools listed in <a href="toolkits.htm">toolkits</a>,
there is at least one other version of EMACS floating around: </p>
<ul>
<li><a href="ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/notgnu/">NotGNU</a>.
Thanks to <a
href="mailto:ROTHENBERG@bsp03c.primerica.com">Howard
Rothenberg</a> </li>
</ul>
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