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What is UWIN Base package?

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What is UWIN Base package?

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UWIN Base package consists of the UWIN runtime libraries, shells, utilities, daemons and services. It provides a virtual UNIX environment on Windows. Most of the utilities were developed by AT&T and conform to POSIX.2 and X/Open. A few utilities were compiled from GNU and BSD source code. • What is UWIN Development pagkage? UWIN Development package adds application development support on UWIN. It consists of header files, libraries and development utilities like cc, make, rcs, etc. It can be used to build UWIN applications and/or to build native applications. The UWIN Development package requires the UWIN base package to be installed on the system. • What are some other add-on packages? The X11 base package provides a number of X11 client applications as well as an X11 server. The X11 development package provides include files and libraries needed to build X11 applications. The perl package is a compilation of perl 5.8. The groff package is a compilation of the GNU groff utilities. • I