You can make a Windows NT system look a lot like UNIX if you get software from Mortice Kern Systems (http://www.mks.com/). MKS Toolkit -- UNIX utilities, including make MKS Source Integrity -- RCS with extensions MKS lex and yacc I use all three, along with Watcom C/C++ 10.6. I would suggest that anyone unfamiliar with MKS software buy the Toolkit first and see if they want the other stuff later. Alternatives (which I have not tried) MKS Toolkit -- Thompson Toolkit MKS lex and yacc -- GNU flex and bison Based on literature from Thompson Toolkit, I prefer MKS Toolkit -- MKS goes for POSIX compatibility, Thompson goes for maximizing what you cna do on a PC, even if this is not POSIX. I have developed software based on shell scripts and UNIX utilities and programs in lex and yacc and C. I find that you can write on a PC with MKS and run the stuff without change in UNIX, and you can develop in UNIX and run without change on a PC (NT, 95, OS/2, or MS-DOS).

Ian, have you run across any good telnet servers for NT 4.0?

Re: NT 4.0 Server Terry, I too have to move grom unix to NT due to company's policy. I recently setup a NT 4.0 server with IIS, service pak 3 and MS proxy server as our company's Internet host. I find the setup very easy and straight forward and it works immediately when I plug the network cables to it (may be I have lots of experience on unix already so I find it easy on NT). The problem of using NT is if something doesn't work, it is hard to find out why. Also it is hard to implement custom implementation or change the programs (no source codes). For unix (Linux/FreeBSD/sun) I can easily change the source and do what I want. For telnet server for NT, loo at: http://www.ataman.com/products.html http://www.pragmasys.com http://www.seattlelab.com/ A good link for NT resources is: http://www.primenet.com/~buyensj/ntwebsrv.html