Porting Unix Applications to Windows NT [With Winbatch 96, Perl for WIN32, Win Edit, One Dir Pro]

by Andrew Lowe

This book offers comparisons of Windows NT's DCE environment with that of UNIX, and discussions of Windows NT architecture for system and applications programmers.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1578700043
• ISBN13: 9781578700042
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Penguin Putnam
• Length: 531 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 7.3" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Excellent book - a couple of years out of date.

It is an excellent book to understand the major differences between Unix and Windows NT. As far as porting code from Unix to Windows NT is concerned it is out of date because it does not cover the latest (versions of) emulation environments such as Cygwin, NuTCRACKER, Interix, and U/Win. In fact two of these environments did not even exist (?) at the time this book was written (Windows NT 4.0 was just released). The author does a good job of providing useful details and is definitely enjoyable to read. If he adds a few chapters covering the other porting environments with their latest versions(which should not be too hard to do) this book can be brought back to its EXCELLENT state.

A good book for unix programmer

A good and detailed comparison between Unix and NT system programming. If you are an expert in Unix system programming and know nothing about NT system programming, this book is a good start. I learn a lot from it!