On Friday 2004.04.23 13:57:56 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Edward H. Trager scripsit: > > > (Windows' lack of a decent shell and command-line tools is probably > > what makes the OS most annoying). > > Cygwin (http://www.cygwin.com) is your friend; it provides a relatively > complete Unix hosted on Win32. It works best on the NT branch of the > family when the disks are NTFS, but will degrade gracefully under W9x > and/or FAT.
Absolutely. The existence of Cygwin makes work on Windows much more tolerable, especially since Cygwin provides the OpenSSH client, XFree86, Perl, console vim, egrep, etc. However, I still haven't figured out how to display a UTF-8 file with non-latin characters in the Cygwin bash shell (on Win2K). As far as I know, this shell really just sits on top of a DOS shell. And as far as I can tell, "chcp 65001" still doesn't let you see, for example, CJK characters in the terminal. I don't think it is possible. Since I also can't figure out how to see non-latin characters in the graphical version of vim (Gvim 6.2) on Windows, I rest my case that Windows is annoying. > > It's free software. As soon as I find myself on a Windows machine, it's > the first thing I install after the Internet tetralogy: AVG Anti-Virus, > Spybot, Adaware, and Sygate Personal Firewall. > > Disclaimer: I have no connection with any of these companies. > > -- > He played King Lear as though John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > someone had played the ace. http://www.ccil.org/~cowan > --Eugene Field http://www.reutershealth.com
