RE: cygwin vs. MKS Toolkit

[Chuck Boyce <sg95m476@drexel.edu>]

Thanks Suhaib,

That's *exactly* why I'm asking.  It's on sale for like $128. btw at www.provantage.com until October (with $75. rebate).

Best!

Chuck
 

> MKS Toolkit is collection of bunch of GNU utilities, which are already
> part of Cygwin.  I am not sure why would you like to pay 200 buck for
> something GNU utils which are available free from several places on
> Internet, including source code from GNU itself.  I am also not sure how MKS
> charge for those utilities which were written by GNU, like sh, sed and ls
> etc etc.
>
> Suhaib

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