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Re: oradim - return codes?? ++ cygwin

From: Mark C. Stock <mcstockX_at_Xenquery>
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 17:56:08 -0400
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"Howard J. Rogers" <hjr_at_dizwell.com> wrote in message news:41461354$0$9522$afc38c87_at_news.optusnet.com.au...
| Mark C. Stock wrote:
|
|
| > |
| > | It's fascinating to me that Cygwin and now this Uwin thing emulate (is
| > that
| > | the right word?) Unix in a Windows environment. Is there much call for
| > this
| > | sort of thing? Or is it merely for people who love Unix, but are
| > | compelled to use Windows because of corporate standards?
| > |
| > | If you had a piece of Unix software you wanted to run, you would never
| > | go the Cygwin/Uwin route in production, would you?
| > |
| > | I'd love to know why this software was ever invented, really.
Seriously.
| > |
| > | Regards
| > | HJR
| >
| > having 'grep' on a windows box is reason enough
|
| So you're saying that Unix users don't like to live without their usual
CLI
| tools, and would like to have something that emulates them whenever they
| have to descend to the depths of working with Windows? But that it's not a
| question of actually running anything major via it??
|
| Is that about right?
|
| Regards
| HJR
|

i would go ahead and use wscript or whatever they call it for any production stuff rather than install cygwin -- i would guess convenience, or the ability to run some maintenance scripts, is more likely

also, having ls with its various options, tail, find, etc, with command piping makes life a lot easier for maint stuff, if you're used to the unix commands

++ mcs Received on Mon Sep 13 2004 - 16:56:08 CDT

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