Are there any nice little Unix programs you'd like to see ported over to Windows?

[yllus]

Think of a Linux application that would be nice to have in Windows. There are some conditions, though.

Conditions:
1) The source code must be available for the program.
2) The code must be written in C or C++.
3) It can't be too huge a program.

I'm looking to experiment with porting native C/C++ applications over to C# in .Net, which supposedly isn't that difficult. I have some time to spare this summer so I thought, why not make a fun project out of it and gain some valuable experience I can use down the line? All I need now are some suggestions about code to translate over. Give it your best shot, AT!

 

[rgwalt]

Pico?

 

[eakers]

this thread is nerdy.. even for here.

 

[mAdD INDIAN]

Originally posted by: yllus
Think of a Linux application that would be nice to have in Windows. There are some conditions, though.

Conditions:
1) The source code must be available for the program.
2) The code must be written in C or C++.
3) It can't be too huge a program.

I'm looking to experiment with porting native C/C++ applications over to C# in .Net, which supposedly isn't that difficult. I have some time to spare this summer so I thought, why not make a fun project out of it and gain some valuable experience I can use down the line? All I need now are some suggestions about code to translate over. Give it your best shot, AT!

mplayer.

 

[eakers]

bump bump nerds

 

[InlineFive]

AirSnort would be #1

 

[DAM]

uptime

lynx

 

[DaveSimmons]

How about grep or something similar, with multi-file and sub-directory support

Last time I checked, most of the Windows mass search-and-replace programs were shareware not freeware.

 

[dolph]

Originally posted by: eakers
bump bump nerds

lol

 

[PowerMacG5]

Originally posted by: DAM
uptime

lynx

Uptime.exe already exists. I have tested it on NT, 2k, and XP and it works fine on all.

Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
How about grep or something similar, with multi-file and sub-directory support

Last time I checked, most of the Windows mass search-and-replace programs were shareware not freeware.

GNU Grep has already been ported to windows. I don't have a link right now, but I do have the executable on my windows box. If I can find the link, I will pass it on to you.

EDIT: Found the link
This is what is included with it:
bc-1.05
bison-1.28
bzip2-1.0.2
diffutils-2.7
fileutils-3.16
findutils-4.1
flex-2.5.4
gawk-3.1.0
grep-2.4.2
gsar110
gzip-1.2.4
indent-2.2.9
jwhois-2.4.1
less-340
m4-1.4
make-3.78.1
patch-2.5
recode-3.6
rman-3.0.7
sed-3.02
shellutils-1.9.4
tar-1.12
textutils-2.1
unrar-3.00
wget-1.8.2
which-2.4

 

[crumpet19]

vi


but, no airsnort would be good one.

 

[GhettoFob]

mythtv

 

[Chadder007]

C++ is still much better than C#.

 

[Linflas]

How about that little Robots game? I had a friend that ported that over to VMS/Fortran from a Unix box.
It is a little ASCII game with the robots represented by "R"s and I forget what letter for the player. Simple concept of an 80 column by 24 line terminal playing field where for each turn you could move 1 space E W N S NE NW SE SW.

 

[brtspears2]

There used to be this one text based game called Droids, you had to keep moving away from the baddies by going left, right, down or up and to kill the baddies you make them collide. There was also a teleport function too.

 

[Martin]

first try wc. Then wget

 

[FrustratedUser]

Port KDE

 

[Spencer278]

There shouldn't be any difficuilt in porting text based games because C/C++ support basic file input output. Porting graphical applications is also pointless because it would make more sences to port the API/libraries and compile the originial code against your new libraries.

 

[her209]

You should port gcc.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Originally posted by: Marauder911
GNU Grep has already been ported to windows. I don't have a link right now, but I do have the executable on my windows box. If I can find the link, I will pass it on to you.

EDIT: Found the link
This is what is included with it:
bc-1.05
bison-1.28
bzip2-1.0.2
...
grep-2.4.2
....

cool, thanks!

(now I just need to re-learn the syntax after a decade away from unix )

 

[PowerMacG5]

Originally posted by: DaveSimmons

Originally posted by: Marauder911
GNU Grep has already been ported to windows. I don't have a link right now, but I do have the executable on my windows box. If I can find the link, I will pass it on to you.

EDIT: Found the link
This is what is included with it:
bc-1.05
bison-1.28
bzip2-1.0.2
...
grep-2.4.2
....

cool, thanks!

(now I just need to re-learn the syntax after a decade away from unix )

No problem, have fun .

 

[kalster]

the stable kernel

 

[everman]

Something like apt-get would be nice.

 

[way]

Wine
fortune
sendmail

 

[Entity]

Originally posted by: way
Wine
fortune
sendmail

Maybe I'm a bit confused. Why would you port Wine to Windows?