[Tutor] Looking for some utilities

[Alan Gauld]

> I am having to move my development environment  for a program I am
> working on from linux to windows, and I am looking for some
utilities to
> run on windows.

This may be stating the obvious but get a copy of cygwin installed.
It gives you all the Linux tools you are used to(bash, vim, awk, sed,
grep, etc) plus a version of python with GNU readline.

> A text editor that supports tabs.

I'm not sure I know what you mean here. Every editor I've
ever used has supported tabs....

> While IDLE works great for an editor.
> I use a number of information files that I update while I code.
> Variable names, functions, to do list, change log, etc and
> would like to run them all in one program.

Well vim allows you to open multiple windows if thats what
you mean? Or do you mean a ttabbed window inteface ala
Netscape? - the penny drops... Can't help with that I hate
tabbed editors, I prefer multi windows with buffer lists
ala vim or emacs

> FTP software. Nothing fancy but free with the ability
> to remember a log on.

WS-FTP is what I use, seems to work OK.

> A 2 windows configurable file manager, similar to worker, or gentoo,
> if you remember the old amiga DirWorks,Dir Opus, Disk master.

What does that mean in comparison to Windows Explorer?
Personally I tend to just use bash or explorer, between them
they meet my neds.

HTH,

Alan G