There is a beta available for Services For Unix which is free. Microsoft might have taken it off the site in preparation for FCS. -- Vladimir Vladimir G. Ivanovic http://www.leonora.org/~vladimir 2770 Cowper St. vladimir(a)acm.org Palo Alto, CA 94306-2447 +1 650 787 2514 "MA" == Mike Alexander <mta(a)arbortext.com&gt; writes: MA> MKS Toolkit is a separate product. Part of it is also included in MA> Microsoft's poorly named "Services for Unix" which adds some Unix MA> compatibility to NT. See MA> <http://www.microsoft.com/ntworkstation/eval/ProductCompare/UNIX/sfu.asp> MA> for more information about that. I thought that all or part of SFU was MA> available for free, but I can't find it so perhaps I'm remembering wrong or MA> it has changed. MA> Several people have tried MKS Toolkit shell with this patch and found that MA> it works fine, so I don't think that is the issue right now. A more MA> interesting question is whether the patch interacts badly with your process MA> patch. I looked at what you did and it looks like they should be ok MA> together, and independent of each other, but I haven't actually tried them MA> together. MA> Mike Alexander MA> At 05:10 PM 11/3/99 , Adrian Aichner wrote: Andy> Vin, I think this one should go in although it hasn't been Andy> sent to xemacs-patches. However, there maybe some wierd Andy> interaction with Adrian's process patch that should be Andy> checked. Adrian, does your patch include this? Have you Andy> tried this patch with yours? Andy> andy Andy> At 12:44 AM 10/20/99 -0400, Mike Alexander wrote: >> >> A few weeks ago I sent a message to the list asking if anyone >> >> knew what was causing the MKS Toolkit Korn shell to fail when >> >> used with the XEmacs shell command. If you recall any attempt >> >> to invoke a sub shell produced the message "Forked child base >> >> mismatch" and pipes didn't work (they appeared to cause the >> >> shell to hang). I think I've fixed both problems and the shell >> >> seems to be working ok now.