[CLUE-Tech] Do these two items exist?

[Jed S. Baer]

On Thu, 25 Apr 2002 13:32:42 -0600
"Dameron, Gregg" <gregg.dameron at lmco.com> wrote:

> I am a longtime Solaris user looking to bring some *nix knowledge home
> to my MS-ME box.
> 
> 1.  My first eyes-on look at Linux was a colleague who was running
> RedHat 7.x on his laptop.  He opened a terminal window and entered
> "lintowin" or"lin2win" (don't remember which).  A large window appeared
> and inside it was a Win95 desktop, running natively (or so it appeared),
> allowing him to bring up MS Office docs.  The window closed when he
> picked "Start -> Log Off". Does anyone know this command and its
> pedigree?  (Or is it more likely to have been an alias to WINE or
> VMWare)?

You sure you're not thinking of this:
  http://www.netraverse.com/products/win4lin30/

> 2.  I have been unable to find any evidence that there is a Linux
> version of the Desktop Korn Shell (dtksh).  Is there one?

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=2643

Unfortunately, nothing there about a Linux port. However, it looks like
you'd need CDE, and I'm not aware of an "API compatible" CDE environment
for Linux. There are "lookalikes", but I haven't tried them.

jed

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