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Re: I'd like to try Perl...

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In article <11e5ba-695.ln1@anubis.morrow.me.uk>,
Ben Morrow  <ben@morrow.me.uk> wrote:
>
>Quoth tmcd@panix.com:
>> Catching up on the newsgroup.
>> 
>> In article <e11eaa-c5h2.ln1@anubis.morrow.me.uk>,
>> Ben Morrow  <ben@morrow.me.uk> wrote:
>> >Hmm, glancing at that just confirms my opinion: mixing native Win32
>> >facilities with ported-from-Unix facilities with Cygwin facilities
>> >just leads to worlds of pain. Since, IME, native Win32 facilities
>> >cannot be avoided entirely, this makes using Cygwin an exercise in
>> >hacking around compatibility problems.
>> 
>> In my long experience with Cygwin, I use it for file processing (perl
>> and sed and pipes and such) and running some commands that it provides
>> (ssh, for example).  I don't know what "Win32 facilities" might refer
>> to, but when it comes to files and using drive letters, Cygwin has
>> been perfectly usable.
>
>Programs which are not Cygwin programs, and don't understand Cygwin
>paths.

In practice, I haven't had much need for them, other than
double-clicking applications which therefore don't interact with
Cgywin at all, or just typing them at the Cygwin shell.  But on the
command line,

   ... $(cygpath -w /some/cygwin/path) ...

produces something along the lines of

   ... C:\some\cygwin\path ...

-- 
Tim McDaniel, tmcd@panix.com

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I'd like to try Perl... Peter Percival <peterxpercival@hotmail.com> - 2013-05-20 15:04 +0100
  Re: I'd like to try Perl... "Dr.Ruud" <rvtol+usenet@xs4all.nl> - 2013-05-20 16:50 +0200
  Re: I'd like to try Perl... Marc Girod <marc.girod@gmail.com> - 2013-05-20 12:44 -0700
    Re: I'd like to try Perl... Peter Percival <peterxpercival@hotmail.com> - 2013-05-20 21:02 +0100
    Re: I'd like to try Perl... John Black <jblack@nospam.com> - 2013-05-21 13:58 -0500
      Re: I'd like to try Perl... dkcombs@panix.com (David Combs) - 2013-07-03 02:31 +0000
        Re: I'd like to try Perl... Ben Morrow <ben@morrow.me.uk> - 2013-07-03 11:48 +0100
          Re: I'd like to try Perl... pepa <papa.pearl@suomi24.fi> - 2013-07-03 18:10 +0300
            Re: I'd like to try Perl... Ben Morrow <ben@morrow.me.uk> - 2013-07-03 17:45 +0100
              Re: I'd like to try Perl... pepa <papa.pearl@suomi24.fi> - 2013-07-03 23:30 +0300
              Re: I'd like to try Perl... tmcd@panix.com (Tim McDaniel) - 2013-07-12 02:04 +0000
                Re: I'd like to try Perl... Ben Morrow <ben@morrow.me.uk> - 2013-07-12 14:47 +0100
                Re: I'd like to try Perl... tmcd@panix.com (Tim McDaniel) - 2013-07-12 15:57 +0000
          Re: I'd like to try Perl... Jürgen Exner <jurgenex@hotmail.com> - 2013-07-03 08:16 -0700
          Re: I'd like to try Perl... John Black <jblack@nospam.com> - 2013-07-04 22:12 -0500
        Re: I'd like to try Perl... John Black <jblack@nospam.com> - 2013-07-04 22:10 -0500
    Re: I'd like to try Perl... Peter Percival <peterxpercival@hotmail.com> - 2013-05-22 12:21 +0100
  Re: I'd like to try Perl... Ben Morrow <ben@morrow.me.uk> - 2013-05-21 01:23 +0100
  Re: I'd like to try Perl... Peter Percival <peterxpercival@hotmail.com> - 2013-05-24 18:52 +0100
    Re: I'd like to try Perl... Ben Morrow <ben@morrow.me.uk> - 2013-05-24 19:34 +0100
    Re: I'd like to try Perl... Jürgen Exner <jurgenex@hotmail.com> - 2013-05-24 12:11 -0700
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        Re: I'd like to try Perl... Ben Morrow <ben@morrow.me.uk> - 2013-05-24 22:06 +0100
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