Re: oradim - return codes?? ++ cygwin

Mark C. Stock wrote:

>
> "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

Fair enough. It's just that the Uwin site talks about 'this lets you build and run Unix applications on Windows'. I suppose if the sort of applications we are talking about are ls, grep, mkdir and so on, I can understand it.

Regards
HJR Received on Mon Sep 13 2004 - 17:04:40 CDT