Mark, Fear not! Cygwin is far more undoable and uninstallable than many pieces of Windows software. It treads very lightly on the registry, using it for little more than the record of its equivalent of Unix's "mount table."
I forgot to mention that there's XFree86/Cygwin, which supports most of the X world's software, though the high-end desktop environments are not so far along (if run under Cygwin itself--remotely, of course, existing implementations will work fine). WindowMaker works well and is sufficient for me (though I prefer KDE when available). There are a few more window managers, too: IceWM, twm, mwm, fvwm2. There are ports of KDE, but I don't know how solid they are. I don't know about Gnome. Cygwin will operate in a conventional console / character subsystem window and also includes a dual-mode (X and Windows / GDI) port of RXVT. By all means, get Cygwin and install it! Subscribe to the email list and read the FAQ, of course. Randall Schulz Mountain View, CA USA At 11:35 2002-09-11, Galbreath, Mark 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 ___________________________________________________________________________ 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
