From: "Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com>
On 14 Jun 2007 at 19:27, Dave McGuire wrote:
On Jun 14, 2007, at 12:21 PM, Rod Smallwood
wrote:
What is cygwin ?
http://www.cygwin.com/
It is a package for Windows that provides a UNIX-like operating
environment. Its aim is to make Windows a bit easier to stomach.
My experience with Cygwin and getting *nix utilities to work the same
way that they do under *nix was so unpleasant that I simply employ a
separate system running NetBSD. Something like VM386 would also
probably be a better solution.
My experience with Cygwin a year or two ago under Win98 was similarly
awful. However, now I am running a newer version under XP, and it has
been great, at least so far.
Vince