The MKS Toolkit Resource Kit, a valuable collection of tools, code, and information to help you with your UNIX and Windows interoperability needs. Also available is the GCC add-on to PTC MKS Toolkit products providing a complete cross platform build environment and comprehensive network and application monitoring respectively.
The Resource Kit and the Add-On is the result of years of experience by our Consulting Services staff in supporting hundreds of customers and are free to all valid licensees of PTC MKS Toolkit products.
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For detailed contents, see Contents below.
The MKS Toolkit Resource Kit is shipped with all PTC MKS Toolkit Professional Developers and PTC MKS Toolkit for Enterprise Developers products and is downloadable for all other PTC MKS Toolkit customers from our web site. MKS Toolkit GCC Add-On is also available for download from our web site.
Full Downloads:
Download the Resource Kit - CD ISO image (both TK and AC Resource Kit items included)
Download The GCC Add-On for NuTCRACKER - CD ISO image (GCC source is on the ISO image)
The Resource Kit contains a number of additional tools and APIs for use with PTC MKS Toolkit products. The Resource Kit installation process will determine which products and Add-Ons you have on your system and install the appropriate components.
The following table shows the contents of the latest version of the MKS Toolkit portion of the Resource Kit. Only the components which will work with your version of MKS Toolkit will be installed on your machine.
| APIs - PTC MKS Toolkit for Professional Developers. | |||
| context | An implementation of the Unix get/set/make/swapcontext in terms of Win32 Fibres. | Nov-00 | |
| endgrent | /etc/groups enumeration the NT way | Sep-98 | |
| endpwent | /etc/passwd enumeration the NT way | Sep-98 | |
| flock | BSD flock() implemented in terms of fcntl() | Sep-00 | |
| getdomainname | A getdomainname() implementation | Jun-00 | |
| getgrent | /etc/groups enumeration the NT way | Apr-99 | |
| gethostid | Maps the machine's NT SID into a host ID. | Apr-99 | |
| getpwent | /etc/passwd enumeration the NT way | Sep-98 | |
| setgrent | /etc/groups enumeration the NT way | Sep-98 | |
| setpwent | /etc/passwd enumeration the NT way | Apr-99 | |
| sync | A Win32 way of forcing disk synchronization | May-00 | |
| Libraries - PTC MKS Toolkit for Professional Developers (and above). | |||
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mit-shm | Allow faster transport of pixmaps through shared memory to the Hummingbird X-Server | Nov-02 |
| ONC RPC | A port of ONC RPC where the portmapper is a service | Sep-03 | |
| pth | GNU Pth - The GNU Portable Threads based on context apis, not pthread | Nov-00 | |
| Libraries - PTC MKS Toolkit for Enterprise Developers (and above). | |||
| Xpm | A port of the Pixmap library | Sep-98 | |
| Xview 3.2 | A port of OPENLOOK 3.2 | Sep-03 | |
| Tools - PTC MKS Toolkit for Professional Developers (and above). | |||
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find_tk | Both a command line script and a GUI application to find installed instances of PTC MKS Toolkit products on your network | Jun-04 |
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gcc | GNU project C and C++ compiler | Jun-04 |
| locate | The Unix locate tool. One program scans your disks to create a database of files and another is used to rapidly search this database and find files. | Jan-02 | |
| lpr | Berkeley lpd daemons, to allow printing from Win32 (Windows NT/Windows95) machines to lpd-hosted printers on a network | Nov-00 | |
| nice | A ported version of the nice utility (Needs NuTCRACKER 4.0 patch 9/MKS Toolkit 7.0 or later) | Sep-98 | |
| NT Security | Utilities to dump file security and user token in human readable form | Sep-00 | |
| ping | The ping program using NuTCRACKER socket APIs. | Jul-98 | |
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| rsync | rsync is a file transfer program capable of efficient remote update via a fast differencing algorithm. | Jun-04 |
| sed | GNU port of Sed which is a "stream editor" -- used for scripted data transformations, such as transforming a data stream within a pipeline. | Nov-00 | |
| showmount | A sample RPC program to help administrators manage NFS servers in the domain | Sep-00 | |
| tcl | Tcl (Tool Command Language) has a simple and programmable syntax. | Dec-03 | |
| tk | Tk is the Graphical User Interface that makes it possible to make powerful GUIs for tcl scripts. | Dec-03 | |
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tksched-7.5 | GUI scheduler from PTC MKS Toolkit v7.5 | Jun-04 |
| yes | Output a string repeatedly until killed | Sep-03 | |
| Tutorials - PTC MKS Toolkit for Professional Developers (and above). | |||
| Byte Ordering | A brief discussion of solutions to sharing data with Big Endian machines | Sep-98 | |
| COM | An introduction to COM, OLE Automation and building components with MKS Toolkit | Oct-99 | |
| InstallShield | An InstallSHIELD example application showing NuTCRACKER Platform and X-Server installation | May-00 | |
| Printing | An introduction to common printing porting problems. Printer enumeration, Postscript,. | May-99 | |
| Rogue Wave Tools.h++ | How to build Rogue Wave Tools.h++ with NuTCRACKER | Oct-98 | |
| Shared Memory | How to access NuTCRACKER shared memory from Win32 | Oct-99 | |
| Sockets and Non-IP protocols | An introduction to IPX and NetBIOS over NuTCRACKER sockets | Oct-98 | |
| Sparse files | How to port applications that are sparse file aware to Windows using NuTCRACKER | Sep-03 | |
| Scripts - PTC MKS Toolkit for System Administrators (and above). | |||
| absname | This handy little utility will generate the absolute pathname given a relative pathname | May-00 | |
| cgrep | Context grep. See lines around those matching a specific pattern | May-00 | |
| clean_tmp | Cleans out the $TEMP directories on all Windows NT boxes in the domain | Sep-00 | |
| cmpdu | Use this customizable script to create and compare disk usage reports for your system. | May-00 | |
| Daleks | A Dlg version of the UNIX game- "Robots" | May-00 | |
| disable_account | Disables a specific Windows account | Sep-00 | |
| dossify | This script will translate a UNIX style command line to the PC command line equivalent | May-00 | |
| download | A simple script which will automatically download files from a directory tree via HTTP | May-00 | |
| dumpel | A perl script to dump the event log | Nov-00 | |
| enable_account | Enables a specific Windows account | Sep-00 | |
| expand_string | Basically does the work of ExpandEnvironmentStrings() using shell scripting | Sep-00 | |
| force_change | Force a user to change password on next login | Sep-00 | |
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gdbm | The perl GDBM module | May-06 |
| getregstring | A script to wrap up "registry" and request a specific string | Sep-00 | |
| iecv.pl | Sets the current code (view source) editor for Internet Explorer. | Nov-02 | |
| killall.sh | Emulates the killall on some Unixes. Kill all processes running a current executable name. | Nov-02 | |
| man2html | A customizable script donated by an MKS Toolkit customer. This one will allow you to create an HTML version of the MKS Toolkit man pages. | May-00 | |
| mdc | A multiple desktop changing script. Create and flip between your NT/2000 desktops. | May-00 | |
| mktemp | Generate a unique filename for use as a temporary file | May-00 | |
| mvprofile | Move a users profile | Sep-00 | |
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runserviceas | A perl script to run a service as a different account | May-06 |
| unlock_account | Removes the "Account locked out" bit | Sep-00 | |
| usrrpt | An excellent user reporting script that will allow you to document your systems user accounts and user attributes (username, home directory, group memberships, privileges and more) in a customizable way. | May-00 | |
| vss | This script will take a Microsoft Visual Source Safe file report and create a vss2rcs formatted file. | May-00 | |
| weblink | A very robust and powerful link checker for Web sites. Many customizable options and configurations to ensure that your site has no dead ends. | May-00 | |
