On 2018-07-16 08:22, cyg Simple wrote: > On 7/16/2018 10:02 AM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: >> Most of the rsh usage is going to be legacy hardware and systems which >> various places still have in good numbers. Various industrial and lab >> components might have been built in 1995 and is slower than your >> iphone but the replacement costs tens or hundreds of millions of >> dollars... (and still uses rsh for backwards compatibility). Payroll >> systems in other places use rsh and rcp and cost large amounts to >> 'upgrade'. The people running these don't show up mailing lists >> because they may not even know that the system uses rsh/telnet or some >> other obscure thing.. they just run a script on a Windows desktop that >> someone wrote years ago. They only show up when stuff stops working. > But are those scripts Cygwin? I doubt they are. Do you have proof of any?
More likely to be command scripts and NT/XP rcp/rexec/rsh utilities which I wrote and used in NT/XP days before OpenSSH. It's more likely those would be replaced in legacy systems with standalone MinGW/native versions than a suite requiring Cygwin. As Corinna says that's no reason not to let people shoot themselves in the foot. -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada