W32 and AIX

2007aug26: (find-es "w32")
           (find-es "w32" "2008jan18")
(still quite messy, but the rest of this page is older.)

In the first project that I worked on while I was at DBA in 2005/2006 I had to use a w32 box to connect to several AIX machines. This page collects some notes about how I'm handling that.

Basic things

• CVS Emacs:
  • Lennart Borgman's w32 builds
  • an annoying bug that no one seems to care much about:
    • my bug report at emacs-pretest-bugs
    • bug report at tramp-devel
    • kaig's answer
• A better DOS-ish shell: 4NT
  • my 4start.btm (at ~/4NT/)
  • my 4???.btm (at the same dir as 4NT.exe)
• ssh/telnet: putty (mainly "plink -telnet", actually)
• 7-zip, UnxUtils, and UnxUpdates
• I've heard good things about the Lab Rat Tollkit.
• Lua:
  • Lua binaries for w32,
  • LuaSocket binaries for w32,
  • Installation instructions and e-scripts
• FTP:
  • many of 4NT's internal commands accept "ftp://..." filenames,
  • NcFTP's has command-line utilites that are only slightly annoying,
  • but I ended up writing this, in Lua:
    • tinyftp.lua
    • tinyftplib.lua
    • myftp.lua
  • Why:
    • buffering problem when running Lua in shell windows in Emacs
    • http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs/10583
    • Tramp broken on w2k: e-mail (rmt) to tramp-devel (rmt), kaig's answer (rmt)
    • ptys in w32 are broken by design; Expect for w32 lacks interact (rmt)
    • w32 doesn't have pseudo-ttys (rmt)

Extras

• GhostScript and GhostGum
• Tcl/Tk
  • http://freshmeat.net/projects/tkdiff/
  • dustmote (not working 100% yet)