QNX Neutrino compared with Microsoft Windows

QNX Neutrino and Windows have different architectures, but the main difference between them from a user's perspective is how you invoke programs.

Much of what you do via a GUI in Windows you do in QNX Neutrino through command-line utilities, configuration files, and scripts, although QNX Neutrino does support a powerful Integrated Development Environment (IDE) to help you create, test, and debug software and embedded systems.

Here are some other differences:

• QNX Neutrino and DOS use different end-of-line characters; QNX Neutrino uses a linefeed, while DOS uses a carriage return and a linefeed. If you need to transfer text files from one OS to the other, you can use QNX Neutrino's textto utility to convert the files. For example, to convert the end-of-line characters to QNX Neutrino-style:

  textto -l my_file
    

  To convert the end-of-line characters to DOS-style:

  textto -c my_file
    

• QNX Neutrino uses a slash (/) instead of a backslash (\) to separate components of a pathname.