Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Message-ID: <19990405012755.3492.rocketmail@web118.yahoomail.com> Date: Sun, 4 Apr 1999 18:27:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Earnie Boyd Reply-To: earnie_boyd@yahoo.com Subject: Re: Perl NT vs Cygnus build To: Craig Dawson , cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii --- Craig Dawson wrote: > Greetings, > > I'm curious as to what the advantages are of a Perl > Cygnus build over a NT build (like ActiveState's or the > native NT one)? 1) tty support with cygwin Perl via bash. With any native program to effectively communicate you must set notty. This may change a little but not totally with b21. 2) the cygwin paths are understood by the cygwin Perl where any native program will not understand the cygwin paths or links. 3) it will behave as if a POSIX style perl. === - \\||// -------------------o0O0--Earnie--0O0o------------------- -- earnie_boyd@yahoo.com -- ----------------------ooo0O--O0ooo---------------------- _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com