Cygwin has no GUI, just a command based (shell) interface lie a dos command window. It is easily removed (as if you'll ever want to).
--- "Galbreath, Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Randall, > > I was looking at Cygwin just this morning! I could not discern, however, > whether or not I could back out once installed. In other words, does the > DLL only enable Unix commands in a command window, or does it slap a GUI on > top of Windows? I'd love to have Unix commands, but I cannot risk my > development environment. > > Mark > > -----Original Message----- > From: Randall R Schulz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 2:32 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: easy compile question > > > TWIMC, > > Software development on Windows is not possible without Cygwin > (<http://cygwin.com/>). > > "Touch" is just one of the hundreds of POSIX-compliant and Gnu tools > included in this open-source, $free software package. It includes > everything from the lowliest of commands such as "cp" and "cat" to the > giants, gcc, Emacs, Python, Perl, Tex and Apache (and, of course, "much, > much more"). > > Cygwin is a near-perfect integration of the Unix world and that > hundred-pound gorilla of an OS that few of us can ignore. And it's vastly > more affordable than VMWare. > > Randall Schulz > Mountain View, CA USA > > > At 07:20 2002-09-11, you wrote: > > >You type: > > > > touch className.class > > > >Where className.class is the name of the main servlet class file. > > > >If you're on windows I think you can download such a utility to do that. > > > >R > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body > of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". > > Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html > Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html > LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body > of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". > > Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html > Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html > LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html > ===== Mark Zawadzki Performance Engineer/DBA/Programmer extraordinaire’ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to build bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning" Robert Cringle (columnist, author, host of "Triumph of the Nerds") __________________________________________________ Yahoo! - We Remember 9-11: A tribute to the more than 3,000 lives lost http://dir.remember.yahoo.com/tribute ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html
