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Re: [OT] Windows to Have Better CLI

  • Subject: Re: [OT] Windows to Have Better CLI
  • From: John Bokma <john@castleamber.com>
  • Date: 10 Jun 2005 16:11:43 GMT
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  • Organization: Castle Amber - software development
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Roy Schestowitz wrote:

> John Bokma wrote:
> 
>> Toby Inkster wrote:
>> 
>>> John Bokma wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I have some of the ports of GNU things insalled. I used Cygwin in
>>>> the past, but ended up with two Perl versions :-D.
>>> 
>>> Ah, but Cygwin provides an X server.
>> 
>> Yup, at the moment no need for it. Installed Cygwin ages ago on a
>> win2k box, but it's like running one and a half OS.
>> 
>> I have plans to look at co-linux in the feature.
> 
> If you have a remote Linux machine which you can access, then also
> consider PuTTY <http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/>
> with X-Server such as the ones from Labtam
> <http://www.labtam-inc.com>.

I have used MI/X (or something like that) ages ago :-). But I'll remember 
the link. Yesterday I saw a shop selling a Mac mini, so who knows :-D.

> I installed Cygwin when I was younger,

:-D

> but it's only essential if you must work on the native O/S.

For some stuff I SSH (PuTTY indeed) to a box I have shell access on. But 
most stuff I do runs on XP. (Although recently I had a nasty suprise:
http://johnbokma.com/mexit/2005/05/18/ )

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