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

Unix-like A Unix-like (sometimes referred to as UN*X or *nix) operating system is one that behaves in a manner similar to a Unix system, although not necessarily conforming to or being certified to any version of the Single UNIX Specification. A Unix-li ...

environment for scripting, connectivity and porting

Unix Unix (; trademarked as UNIX) is a family of multitasking, multiuser computer operating systems that derive from the original AT&T Unix, whose development started in 1969 at the Bell Labs research center by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, an ...

and

Linux Linux ( or ) is a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged as a Linux distribution, w ...

software to Microsoft Windows. It was originally created for

MS-DOS MS-DOS ( ; acronym for Microsoft Disk Operating System, also known as Microsoft DOS) is an operating system for x86-based personal computers mostly developed by Microsoft. Collectively, MS-DOS, its rebranding as IBM PC DOS, and a few ope ...

, and

OS/2 OS/2 (Operating System/2) is a series of computer operating systems, initially created by Microsoft and IBM under the leadership of IBM software designer Ed Iacobucci. As a result of a feud between the two companies over how to position OS/2 r ...

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

power users A power user is a user of computers, software and other electronic devices, who uses advanced features of computer hardware, operating systems, programs, or websites which are not used by the average user. A power user might not have extensive tec ...

, 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 defi ...

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 A ...

. 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

Microsoft Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology corporation producing computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services headquartered at the Microsoft Redmond campus located in Redmond, Washin ...

for the first two versions of their

Windows Services for Unix Windows Services for UNIX (SFU) is a discontinued software package produced by Microsoft which provided a Unix environment on Windows NT and some of its immediate successor operating-systems. SFU 1.0 and 2.0 used the MKS Toolkit; starting with ...

, but later dropped in favor of

Interix Interix was an optional, POSIX-conformant Unix subsystem for Windows NT operating systems. Interix was a component of Windows Services for UNIX, and a superset of the Microsoft POSIX subsystem. Like the POSIX subsystem, Interix was an environment ...

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 Bourne shell, KornShell, Bash,

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Tcl TCL or Tcl or TCLs may refer to: Business * TCL Technology, a Chinese consumer electronics and appliance company **TCL Electronics, a subsidiary of TCL Technology * Texas Collegiate League, a collegiate baseball league * Trade Centre Limited ...

shell * Traditional

commands (400+), including

grep 


grep is a  command-line utility for searching plain-text data sets for lines that match a regular expression. Its name comes from the  ed command ''g/re/p'' (''globally search for a regular expression and print matching lines''), which has the sa ...

awk 



AWK (''awk'') is a domain-specific language designed for text processing and typically used as a data extraction and reporting tool. Like sed and grep, it is a filter, and is a standard feature of most  Unix-like operating systems.

The AWK lang ...

sed 



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and is available today for most operating systems.
 sed w ...

, vi, ls,

kill 
Kill often refers to:

*Homicide, one human killing another
*cause death, to kill a living organism, to cause its death

Kill may also refer to:

 Media
*'' Kill!'', a 1968 film directed by Kihachi Okamoto
* ''Kill'' (Cannibal Corpse album), 2006
* ...

* Windows specific commands (70+), including registry, shortcut, desktop, wcopy, db, dde, userinfo * Tape and archive commands, including

tar 



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cpio 



cpio is a general  file archiver utility and its associated  file format. It is primarily installed on Unix-like computer operating systems. The software utility was originally intended as a tape archiving program as part of the Programmer's Wor ...

, pax, zip, bzip2, ar * Remote connectivity, including

ssh The Secure Shell Protocol (SSH) is a cryptographic network protocol for operating network services securely over an unsecured network. Its most notable applications are remote login and command-line execution. SSH applications are based on ...

remote shell The remote shell (rsh) is a command line computer program that can execute shell commands as another user, and on another computer across a computer network. The remote system to which ''rsh'' connects runs the ''rsh'' daemon (rshd). The daemon ...

telnet Telnet is an application protocol used on the Internet or local area network to provide a bidirectional interactive text-oriented communication facility using a virtual terminal connection. User data is interspersed in-band with Telnet contr ...

xterm In computing, 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 shell. An X display can sho ...

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

ncurses ncurses (new curses) is a programming library providing an application programming interface (API) that allows the programmer to write text-based user interfaces (TUI) in a terminal-independent manner. It is a toolkit for developing "GUI-like" ...

, Motif, OpenGL

Supported operating systems

MKS Toolkit products support all

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and

x64 x86-64 (also known as x64, x86_64, AMD64, and Intel 64) is a 64-bit version of the x86 instruction set, first released in 1999. It introduced two new modes of operation, 64-bit mode and compatibility mode, along with a new 4-level paging mo ...

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

Windows 9x Windows 9x is a generic term referring to a series of Microsoft Windows computer operating systems produced from 1995 to 2000, which were based on the Windows 95 kernel and its underlying foundation of MS-DOS, both of which were updated in su ...

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

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Overview

Supported operating systems

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References

Reviews

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