From: Haakon.Alstadheim@sds.no (Haakon Alstadheim) Subject: Targeting different user needs 5 Mar 1998 11:43:42 -0800 Message-ID: <71495537640ED111849600A0C949C82E131B9D.cygnus.gnu-win32@nt1trondheim.sds.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain To: "'gnu-win32@cygnus.com'" Hi, I'm returning with caution after a corrupt disk drive, and contemplating wether to install the b19 cygwin. Before I do that however, I'd like to hear some opinions of which type of "unix workalike" environment I should install. Basically what I'm after is text processing utilities and scripting/shell environments. Typicaly, in no particular order, perl,sed,tr, gz,tar emacs bash, cat, lpr, {n,t}roff, man, less .... Now, going the course of "mount -b" is, I believe, still recommended with cygwin, but that does not work well with text files produced with dos line-endings. :-( Is cygwin32 only for people wishing to live totally within their own tools, or can I, though I'm forced to integrate with apps that produce dos text, benefit? Precicely what do I lose if I don't use the -b switch with mount? For now I'm using the "official" ? perl port from and a port of gnu sed that does not barf when given a regular Win NT path-name. Good as far as it goes, but I'd like more. :-) Anybody got some heuristics for which type of toolset goes well with which type of use ? - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".