[TriLUG] fighting with Perl on Windoze

[jonc at nc.rr.com]

Cygwin rocks! It's one of the most amazing collection of apps I have ever used on a Windows box. It's all the gnu tools you have come to love and trust.. and they run on WINDOWS! Dude, it almost makes windows livable.
I haven't used cygwin in six years... but that's when I made the final leap to Linux as my full-time workstation. I just got tired of pretending I was on a Linux box (using the Cygwin tools  :-)

Jon

---- "Douglas A. Whitfield" <whitdoug at email.unc.edu> wrote: 
> On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 9:25 PM, Jeremy Portzer <jeremyp at pobox.com> wrote:
> >  Have you tried using Cygwin?  This is my solution to most open-source on
> >  Windows problems (I'm forced to use Windows myself at $JOB, but do
> >  everything I can in cygwin.)
> >
> >  --Jeremy
> 
> I've never used cygwin.  I assume given this comment it can access
> windows resources.  I had trouble installing the MSDE module on Linux,
> I think because it needed Windows specific packages, so I'm curious as
> to if cygwin will do it.  I'll let you know once I've had a chance to
> test it out...perhaps not until Monday, but probably before.
> 
> Thanks for the help!
> 
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