Ted's How to Make Windows Civilized Page

Introduction

Windows(tm) is *much* more civilized after you install the right set of tools. :-)

Links

• A precompiled set of zip/unzip binaries for Windows NT.
• Cygnus's GNU-WIN32 tool-chain. Its user tools utilities are useful even if you need to use Microsoft's C compiler instead of gcc. They contain nice commands like bash, tar, gzip, ls, grep, etc.
• A port of GNU emacs for Windows NT.
• Perl for Windows NT
• Virtual Network Computing, a package which allows you to remote access your NT box securely, even from a Unix machine!
• Although I don't use it, Reed Kotler has put together a toolset of Unix utilities for Windows NT that contains the GNU tools, perl, emacs, etc.