[CLUE-Tech] Do these two items exist?

[Michael J. Hammel]

Thus spoke Dameron, Gregg
> 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)?

It's called Win4Lin and is a commercial product.
http://netraverse.com/

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

I haven't see this, but I only seldomly used dtksh when I was on solaris.
I just used ksh, and bash substitutes well for that.

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Michael J. Hammel                               The Graphics Muse 
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