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Re: Questions about Windows by a (L|U)nix user

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Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On 4 Jan 2012 00:32:06 GMT, jt@toerring.de (Jens Thoms Toerring)
> wrote:
> >   please don't take this as a rant or an attempt to start a
> >flameware - I'm merely curious and would like to get some
> >answers to questions I haven't been able to find. And I'm
> >posting it here since I haven't found any more suitable
> >place - please accept my appologies if it's off-topic here
> >(in that case I would be grateful for a pointer to a more
> >appropriate newsgroup).
> >
> >Background: I'm a long-time Unix/Linux user and now am in the
> >situation were I have to write a program that works on Windows
> >as well (and on MacOS). And, to be honest, it was rather a night-
> >mare for me to get things to work on Windows;-) A good deal is
> >for sure due to my ignorance of Windows and the ways it works.
> >But there are some things I couldn't find any good explabation
> >for, and that's what I would like to ask about here:

> A useful resource when porting from *nix is:

> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb496505.aspx

> But as you mention, a large part of the problem is familiarity - a lot
> of *nix developers come to Windows and insist on doing things the *nix
> way, which usually ends poorly, or at least involves considerable
> pain.

<lots of good advice snipped>

Thank you very much for all your explanations, it's a very
big help! It will take some time to absorb all you've pointed
out and also some more reading and experimentation, so I'll
not start asking further questions just now;-)

                          Best regards, Jens
-- 
  \   Jens Thoms Toerring  ___      jt@toerring.de
   \__________________________      http://toerring.de

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Questions about Windows by a (L|U)nix user jt@toerring.de (Jens Thoms Toerring) - 2012-01-04 00:32 +0000
  Re: Questions about Windows by a (L|U)nix user "io_x" <a@b.c.invalid> - 2012-01-04 06:40 +0100
    Re: Questions about Windows by a (L|U)nix user "io_x" <a@b.c.invalid> - 2012-01-04 06:48 +0100
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