From: richardd@cix.compulink.co.uk (Richard Donkin) Subject: Shell hacks for Win32 9 Dec 1996 08:35:50 -0800 Sender: daemon@cygnus.com Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: Reply-To: richardd@cix.compulink.co.uk Original-To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com Original-Cc: richardd@cix.compulink.co.uk Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com I have written a few shell functions to make it easier to use bash and Gnu-Win32 with normal Win32 tools, in particular the Win32 ports of Perl, VIM, and less. For example, I have a path2win Perl script that converts a Gnu-Win32 path into a true Win32 path (e.g. / into c:\, //d into d:\) so that I can use normal bash filename completion to generate a filename for use with VIM, which does not understand the /c or //c notation. Quite easy to write but it would save time for people who are getting into this. I'm sure other people have done similar things. Is anyone interested in sharing such hacks, and if so, is it OK to post the shorter ones to the list or upload them to some ftp location? Richard -- richardd@cix.compulink.co.uk http://www.inside-edge.co.uk/ Inside Edge Consultancy Client/Server and Internet Applications PGP key from: pgp-public-keys@keys.pgp.net -or- http://www.four11.com/ - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".