MKS Toolkit is a software package produced and maintained by PTC that provides a

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environment for scripting, connectivity and porting

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and

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software to

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. It was originally created for

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, and

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versions were released up to version 4.4. Several editions of each version, such as MKS Toolkit for developers, power users, enterprise developers and

interoperability Interoperability is a characteristic of a product or system to work with other products or systems. While the term was initially defined for information technology or systems engineering services to allow for information exchange, a broader de ...

are available, with the enterprise developer edition being the most complete. Before PTC, MKS Toolkit was owned by

MKS Inc MKS, Inc (formerly called Mortice Kern Systems) is a subsidiary of PTC, Inc. It was previously a multinational independent software vendor that was acquired by Parametric Technology Corporation (now PTC) on May 31, 2011. MKS operated in the ...

. In 1999, MKS acquired a company based in Fairfax,

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, USA called Datafocus Inc. The Datafocus product N''u''TCRACKER had included the MKS Toolkit since 1994 as part of its Unix compatibility technology. The MKS Toolkit was also licensed by

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for the first two versions of their Windows Services for Unix, but later dropped in favor of Interix after Microsoft purchased the latter company. Version 10.0 was current .

Overview

The MKS Toolkit products offer functionality in the following areas: * Command shell environments of

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, Bash,

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, Tcl shell * Traditional

commands (400+), including

grep 


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, awk, sed, vi, ls, kill * Windows specific commands (70+), including registry, shortcut, desktop, wcopy, db, dde, userinfo * Tape and archive commands, including tar,

cpio 



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, pax, zip, bzip2, ar * Remote connectivity, including ssh, remote shell,

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xterm xterm is the standard terminal emulator for the X Window System. It allows users to run programs which require a command-line interface. If no particular program is specified, xterm runs the user's Unix shell, shell. An X display device, dis ...

, kterm, rexec, rlogin * Porting APIs, including fork(), signals, alarms, threads * Graphical porting APIs, including X, ncurses, Motif,

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Supported operating systems

MKS Toolkit products support all

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and x64 of the

operating systems. There is some loss of functionality running IA-32 versions on

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. Earlier versions ran on MS-DOS and compatible operating systems.

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Supported operating systems

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