begin quoting MattyJ as of Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 03:33:34PM -0800: > >If you're using XP or somesuch flavor, you still ought to have telnet, > >or you can use PuTTy in telnet mode as well. > > > >I can't offer concrete advice for those in MS Hell because I don't > >play in that sewer anymore. > > I haven't really been reading this thread, but I'd like to remind folks > that Cygwin is a very nice Bash shell for Windows and includes just about > every app under the sun, not to mention gcc, etc. so you can compile > things yourself. I haven't opened a DOS window in 10 years, it seems like.
Cygwin isn't a bash shell. Cygwin *provides* a bash shell. I always throw away the bash shell and set up a nice zsh shell instead. -- And a tcsh shell too Just because I can. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
