How to run a HP-Unix Based FEA Software on Windows 2000
How to run a HP-Unix Based FEA Software on Windows 2000
(OP)
Hi,
I have an NT Workstation and there is FEA tool which only works on HP-UNIX operating system. How can I run it on windows 2000 platform? I searched some emulators on internet but I have a lot of dobths about them. The emulators are:
a) Interix
b) U/WIN
c) MKS Toolkit
d) Winaxe
e) Cygwin
Have you ever practiced one of these? What are your advises?
Sincerely
vozgul
I have an NT Workstation and there is FEA tool which only works on HP-UNIX operating system. How can I run it on windows 2000 platform? I searched some emulators on internet but I have a lot of dobths about them. The emulators are:
a) Interix
b) U/WIN
c) MKS Toolkit
d) Winaxe
e) Cygwin
Have you ever practiced one of these? What are your advises?
Sincerely
vozgul





RE: How to run a HP-Unix Based FEA Software on Windows 2000
No matter. Even if such an animal does exist... I don't think I'd trust it much.
I'd say... forget about it. Windows isn't very portable. If you want to run a program using Windows... that program should have been compiled using a compiler designed to create windows programs. I would never expect anything else to run on Windows. Heck... you're lucky to even be able to read a Unix generated file while using Windows. Even if you can find an emulator that actually CAN emulate Unix.... your program will likely run incorrectly ( if at all ), for reasons that are not the subject of this thread.
FEA software is tricky enough as is. Trying to mix Unix and Windows ( night and day ) is even trickier. If you want to use a Windows box... get some software made for Windows use.
Dan
RE: How to run a HP-Unix Based FEA Software on Windows 2000
RE: How to run a HP-Unix Based FEA Software on Windows 2000
Thank you for your responses. The problem is that I don't have possiblity to find a HP-UX, SUN-UX, etc. in a short time. So I wonder if there is possibility to run a Unix based FEA software on a PC with relavent emulator.
Sincerely
vozgul
RE: How to run a HP-Unix Based FEA Software on Windows 2000
Dan
RE: How to run a HP-Unix Based FEA Software on Windows 2000
I suggest that you do some more research on the web.
TTFN
RE: How to run a HP-Unix Based FEA Software on Windows 2000
The other solution would be to emulate the cpu it was compiled for, under the OS emulation. This sounds a tad inefficient.
I am not a programmer but, so far as I can understand it:
Interix is a compile time tool similar (to some extent to U/WIN)
U/WIN is a Unix compatible API for Windows, that is it intercepts UNIX calls and translates them into Windoese . It is not a run-time tool, it is for building apps.
MKS Toolkit likewise
Cygwin is what you are looking for, sort of. The problem is that it is a Linux emulator, and a program compiled for a specific Unix may not (I am tempted to write will not) run on a Linux, let alone an emulated Linux that is under development.
Even if that is solved that still leaves you with the cpu compilation problem.
Cheers
Greg Locock
RE: How to run a HP-Unix Based FEA Software on Windows 2000
Cheers
vozgul