On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 09:22, Andrew Jorgensen wrote:
> You had me going for a second there. I thought rsync had been ported 
> without cygwin. <sigh/>.

I thought it was, actually.

> 
> And tar:
> 
> The Win32 port can only create tar archives, but cannot pipe its output
> to other programs such as gzip or compress, and will not create
> tar.gz archives.

Hmm.  Cygwin definitely is better then.  I do recommend it.  Cygwin is
the only way I can survive using windows.

Michael


> 
> <sigh again=true/>
> 
> Michael L Torrie wrote:
> > On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 08:34, Ryan Bowman wrote:
> > 
> >>Anyone know of good, reliable, free (as in beer, I mean, pepsi), backup 
> >>program for windows?
> >>Ryan
> > 
> > 
> > Well, I use unix tools like tar and rsync all the time, and they have
> > all been ported to windows (without cygwin even).  See
> > http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net about your favorite unix tool.
> > 
> > Michael
> > 
> > 
> > 
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