Thanks for the recommendations everyone. I got mingw working with a bit of
effort - not exactly your usual Windows "bouncing ball" installation
process. I was tempted to try unxutils but I'm running Vista so I'll stick
with mingw for the moment.
> I highly suggest MSYS from http://www.mingw.org. But there is also
> http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ which includes a patch command.