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MKS Toolkit is a software package produced and maintained byPTC that provides aUnix-like environment for scripting, connectivity and portingUnix andLinux software toMicrosoft Windows. It was originally created forMS-DOS, andOS/2 versions were released up to version 4.4.[1] Several editions of each version, such as MKS Toolkit fordevelopers,power users, enterprise developers andinteroperability are available, with the enterprise developer edition being the most complete.[2]
Before PTC, MKS Toolkit was owned byMKS Inc. In 1999, MKS acquired a company based inFairfax,Virginia, USA called Datafocus Inc. The Datafocus product NuTCRACKER had included theMKS Toolkit since 1994 as part of its Unix compatibility technology. The MKS Toolkit was also licensed byMicrosoft for the first two versions of theirWindows Services for Unix, but later dropped in favor ofInterix after Microsoft purchased the latter company.
Version 10.0 was current as of October 2017[update].[3]
The MKS Toolkit products offer functionality in the following areas:
grep,awk,sed,vi,ls,kill[4]registry,shortcut,desktop,wcopy,db,dde,userinfo[5]tar,cpio,pax,zip,bzip2,arfork(),signals,alarms,threads[7]MKS Toolkit products support allIA-32 andx64 of theMicrosoft Windows operating systems.[8] There is some loss of functionality running IA-32 versions onWindows 9x.[9] Earlier versions ran on MS-DOS and compatible operating systems.[10]
In addition, because of the lack of certain operating features on Windows 95/98/Me, some MKS Toolkit UNIX APIs run in degraded mode (or return without doing anything) on those platforms.
the basic utilities supplied with MS-DOS leave something to be desired. ... there are a number of packages available that can make your PC almost into a UNIX look-a-like. ... One of these packages is the MKS Toolkit.