"Howard J. Rogers" <hjr_at_dizwell.com> wrote in message news:<41461977$0$20580$afc38c87_at_news.optusnet.com.au>...
> 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
Hi,
But some real time applications and servers running on windows is
running on top of Cygwin. Postgres database server, if u want to run
on windows, first you have to install cygwin and then install postgres
on top of cygwin.
Regards
Zunil
Cordys
Received on Mon Sep 13 2004 - 23:34:11 CDT
