UWIN
UWIN is a computer software package created by David Korn which allows programs written for the operating system Unix to be built and run on Microsoft Windows with few, if any, changes. Some of the software development was subcontracted to Wipro, India. References, correct or not, to the software as U/Win and AT&T Unix for Windows can be found in some cases, especially from the early days of its existence.
UWIN source is available under the open source Eclipse Public License 1.0 at AT&T's / repositories on GitHub.
UWIN 5 is distributed with the FireCMD enhanced Windows shell with the Korn Shell thereof as one of three default shells present at install, the others being the FireCMD scripting language and the default Windows command shell cmd.exe. Other UWIN shells like csh and tclsh and those of other interoperability suites like the MKS Toolkit and other shells like those that come with Tcl, Lua, Python and Ruby distributions inter alia can be added to the menu by the user/administrator.
Technical details
Technically, it is an X/Open library for the Windows 32-bit application programming interface, called Win32.UWIN contains:
- Libraries that emulate a Unix environment by implementing the Unix API
- Include files and development tools such as cc, yacc, lex, and make.
- ksh and over 250 utilities such as ls, sed, cp, stty, etc.
UWIN runs best on Windows NT/2000/XP/7 with the file system NTFS, but can run in degraded mode using FAT, and further degraded on Windows 95/98/ME. A beta version for Windows Vista and 7 is released as UWin 5.0b. On January 19, 2016, it was announced by AT&T that the AST and UWIN source packages were migrated to GitHub.