Off the subject a bit, but I want to know...

2002-10-22 Thread Tyler Mace
I heard about Sygwin when reading the Re:IDE letter, and it is kinda funny, but I downloaded it yesterday. I haven't used it yet, but I am wonder what it is how it works and how I can use it to my advantage in this M$ world. Thanks. Tyler Mace Application Programmer Sunergize -- To

RE: Off the subject a bit, but I want to know...

2002-10-22 Thread Timothy Johnson
Do you mean Cygwin? It's a UNIX environment for windows. Check out the front page at www.cygwin.com. -Original Message- From: Tyler Mace [mailto:tyler;sunergize.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 2:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Off the subject a bit, but I want to know... I

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2002-10-22 Thread Patel, SamirX K
I've been thinking of jumping to Cygwin for a while. Does anyone know how it interacts with existing installations of ActivePerl and other stuff (vim, gawk)? Does it replace them with its own version, or does it figure out that they already exist on your system? Samir -Original

RE: Off the subject a bit, but I want to know...

2002-10-22 Thread Beau E. Cox
Hi - I replaces them. In my experience, the cygwin prompt seems to be isolated from your existing windows environment. While your at it, you may want to look into www.mingw.org and it's prompt msys. Aloha = Beau. -Original Message- From: Patel, SamirX K