Check out Windows Services for Unix from Microsoft http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/interopmigration/bb380242.aspx
or search for "Services for Unix" from http://www.microsoft.com/ Works on Windows XP, Windows 2k, Windows Server 2003 Jeff Phil Betts writes: > To: help-emacs-windows@gnu.org > Subject: RE: [h-e-w] pb with the use of Merge > Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 17:58:04 +0100 > > LaurentHelpEmacsWind wrote on Friday, May 04, 2007 11:31 AM:: > > > Phil Betts a écrit : > > > >> > >> For me, running Windows without cygwin would be unthinkable. > >> > >> > > All right, I will try that. > > May you give me some examples about the fact that it is for you > > unthinkable to work with windows without cygwin ? > > Well, I program on Unix for a living, and when you're used to > the sort of power that bash and the common Unix utilities provide, > trying to live with cmd and the half-baked MS "equivalents" of > Unix utilities just won't work. > > E.g. last night, I had 200+ photos in directory "original" that > needed to be resized, leaving the resized copies in directory > "smaller". > > In bash, I just did this: > > for i in original/*.jpg;do convert -resize 50% $i smaller/`basename $i`;done > > Try doing that in one line in cmd. > > It's amazing just how quickly one can do powerful things on > the command line in bash with the Unix utils. > > By contrast, it's amazing how hard it is to force cmd (or Windows > GUI programs) to do anything really useful, unless the person who > wrote it consciously coded for that task. > > > > > -- Jeff Dwork | [EMAIL PROTECTED] 408-307-2496 (cell) Advanced Micro Devices, M/S 362| 408-749-5216 (desk) 408-774-7811 (fax) PO Box 3453 |---------------------------------------- Sunnyvale, Ca 94088-3453 |
