Cygwin but not really question

[Christopher Faylor]

On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 12:36:44PM -0700, Warren Young wrote:
> Vince Rice wrote:
>> ...recently switched to a Mac...I would like use the
>> conv.c program (u2d/d2u/etc.) on the OS X side. 
>
> To extend the OS X's base Unix environment to be more Linux-like -- or 
> Cygwin-like, if you prefer -- install Fink: http://fink.sf.net/  This is an 
> APT-based packaging project which pulls in a lot of stuff that you find 
> Linux and Cygwin, which was left out of OS X.  There is a dos2unix package:
>
> 	http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/package.php/dos2unix
>
> So, after Fink is installed and configured for the first time, you just say 
> "fink install dos2unix", and there you are.  You can use Bash aliases to 
> get 'd2u' and 'u2d' if you don't want to retrain your fingers.  I find 
> 'dos2unix' and 'unix2dos' a little more common.
>
> Some people prefer MacPorts (http://www.macports.org/) which does much the 
> same thing.  I happen to have started with Fink and have been happy with 
> it, so haven't bothered to even try MacPorts.

And, in case it isn't obvious, this stretches the "vaguely Cygwin
related" to an atom thick thread.

This really is the kind of thing best discussed in a Mac OS/X forum not
a Cygwin forum.