Re: Doing Unix on Windows

On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 8:53 AM, <meino.cramer@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> As I tried to explain with my broken English, I am not allowed to
> install anything on my Windows-PC.
> Sorry...
> The only tool I have is: Vim.

I'm not sure if having a Microsoft-supplied package will get around
your limitation of not being able to install things, but Microsoft has
had Unix tools for some time now:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc779522%28WS.10%29.aspx
In the Control Panel, it's under "Turn Windows Features on or off" or
something similar.

Alternately, XP/Vista/Win7 versions of Windows can run PowerShell
(also under "Windows Features" on Vista), and it's installed natively
on Windows 7. PowerShell is still missing some features of the
unix-land shells, but it is WAY better than plain old cmd.exe. At the
minimum it supports command aliases and user-defined functions, which
goes a long way towards making life more tolerable.

HTH,
Dan

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