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| 426 | | <h3><a name="windows"></a>Does it work on Windows?</h3> |
| 427 | | |
| 428 | | <p>Yes, finally it does. A windows port of <tt>smartctl</tt> 5.26 by |
| 429 | | <a href="http://sourceforge.net/users/chrfranke/">Christian Franke</a> |
| 430 | | was first checked in 2004/02/23 on CVS branch |
| 431 | | <a href="http://sourceforge.net/browser/branches/RELEASE_5_26_WIN32_BRANCH/sm5"> |
| 432 | | RELEASE_5_26_WIN32_BRANCH</a> and has been merged to the CVS trunk later.</p> |
| 433 | | |
| 434 | | <p>The <a href="http://www.cygwin.com/"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />Cygwin</a> environment can be |
| 435 | | used to built both Cygwin and Windows (using <a href="http://www.mingw.org/"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />MinGW</a>) |
| 436 | | versions of <tt>smartctl</tt> and <tt>smartd</tt>. |
| 437 | | Installation instructions for binary distributions can be found |
| 438 | | <a href="http://sourceforge.net/wiki/Download#InstalltheCygwinpackage-WindowswithCygwininstalled">here for Cygwin</a> |
| 439 | | and <a href="http://sourceforge.net/wiki/Download#Windows-InstalltheWindowspackage">here for Windows</a>.</p> |
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| 441 | | <hr /> |