There are also versions of the GNU tools (like sed, gawk), converted to
Win32 native (non-cygwin)...
For example:
http://www.softseek.com/Utilities/General/Review_31217_index.html
--- Fraxinus
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----- Original Message -----
From: Parker, Ron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 8:51 PM
Subject: RE: Parallel Printers
| > -----Original Message-----
| > From: Nick Behnken [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
|
| > We could use perl... you can download the cygnus compiler for free for
| > Windows... which has a perl interpreter as well as a bash shell.
|
| In that case I would recommend sed or at the most awk for a couple of
| reasons. The sed and awk programs are a default part of the Cygwin tools,
| http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin, perl is not. Also perl uses far more
| resources than awk or sed, there are both more files on the drive and it
use
| much more memory.
