Re: Microsoft brain-damage of the day

2006-12-01 Thread Brian Chabot
Bill McGonigle wrote: yum install cygwin Over here it's just: $ sudo urpmi cygwin Oh yeah... oops, that doesn't work either. You'll have to download the setup.exe. Right. 'Doze. Glad I almost never use it any more. Brian -Bill - Bill McGonigle, Owner Work: 603.44

Re: Microsoft brain-damage of the day

2006-12-01 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Nov 29, 2006, at 21:31, Ben Scott wrote: Under 'doze, I have to do this: yum install cygwin oops, that doesn't work either. You'll have to download the setup.exe. -Bill - Bill McGonigle, Owner Work: 603.448.4440 BFC Computing, LLC Home: 603.448.1668 [EMAIL

Re: Microsoft brain-damage of the day

2006-11-30 Thread Ben Scott
On 11/30/06, Ted Roche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yeah, that's classic DOS/CMD. If you want -MM-DD, it's as simple as FOR /F "tokens=2-4 delims=/ " %%i IN ('date /t') DO SET DATE=%%k-%%i-%%j Nitpick: DOS, which just had COMMAND.COM, couldn't do that at all. You need WinNT's shell (CMD.EXE

Re: Microsoft brain-damage of the day

2006-11-30 Thread Ted Roche
On Nov 29, 2006, at 10:45 PM, Kjel Anderson wrote: Is that the new Powershell syntax? That is god-awful. Wow. Makes perl look pretty. Kjel Yeah, that's classic DOS/CMD. If you want -MM-DD, it's as simple as FOR /F "tokens=2-4 delims=/ " %%i IN ('date /t') DO SET DATE=%%k-%%i-%%j I use

Re: Microsoft brain-damage of the day

2006-11-29 Thread Ben Scott
On 11/29/06, Kjel Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is that the new Powershell syntax? No, that's just CMD.EXE (the successor to COMMAND.COM for WinNT). I haven't tried PowerShell (Monad) yet. I've got enough to do keeping up with the stuff I have. :) -- Ben

Re: Microsoft brain-damage of the day

2006-11-29 Thread Kjel Anderson
Is that the new Powershell syntax? That is god-awful. Wow. Makes perl look pretty. Kjel On 11/29/06, Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Under 'nix, if I want to put the output of a command into a shell environment variable, I do this: NOW=$( date -I ) Under 'doze, I have to do this: F

Microsoft brain-damage of the day

2006-11-29 Thread Ben Scott
Under 'nix, if I want to put the output of a command into a shell environment variable, I do this: NOW=$( date -I ) Under 'doze, I have to do this: FOR /F %%I IN ('gdate -I') DO SET NOW=%%I Aren't you glad you use 'nix? Don't you wish everybody did? -- Ben ___