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From: Peter Ring <pri AT magnus DOT dk>
To: "'Lisbeth Kellogg'" <lisbeth DOT kellogg AT apioutsourcing DOT com>,
   "'Joshua Daniel Franklin'" <joshuadfranklin AT yahoo DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: RE: "Using Cygwin Effectively with Windows" -- Draft of new User'
	s Guide section
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 10:37:04 +0200
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I'd suggest adding a warning about potential name clashes between common
Windows and GNU utilities, e.g. 'sort' and 'find'.

I've yet to find a completely safe and general way to avoid picking up
/WINNT/system32/sort.exe rather than /usr/bin/sort, short of always
asserting than /usr/bin is before /WINNT/system32/ (or wherever sort.exe
would be) before invoking sort.

Even though you'd never ever need the DOS legacy sort.exe or find.exe, you
can't just remove /WINNT/system32/sort.exe; on Win2K and WinXP; it will be
resurrected within seconds by the system. So I've acquired a habit of 

  chmod -x /WINNT/system32/find.exe
  chmod -x /WINNT/system32/sort.exe

kind regards
Peter Ring

-----Original Message-----
From: Lisbeth Kellogg [mailto:lisbeth DOT kellogg AT apioutsourcing DOT com]
Sent: 30. juli 2003 23:18
To: 'Joshua Daniel Franklin'; cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: RE: "Using Cygwin Effectively with Windows" -- Draft of new
User's Guide section


I would suggest adding a section on the PATH environment and its use
when invoking bash from DOS.

---
Lisbeth Kellogg
Office: 651-675-2610
 

-----Original Message-----
From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com] On Behalf
Of Joshua Daniel Franklin
Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 1:18 PM
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: "Using Cygwin Effectively with Windows" -- Draft of new User's
Guide section


I've thrown together a prospective "Using Cygwin Effectively with
Windows" 
section for the User's Guide. 

If you'd like to look at it as a web page:
<http://iocc.com/~joshua/tmp/using-effectively.html>

I'm going to be leaving this broadband connection in under 48 hours, so
I'll probably put this into CVS tomorrow (with any corrections) 
unless there is a horrendous outcry against it. Then I'll be in and 
out of contact for probably a(nother) couple of weeks while I move. 

Some things:
--Q: Does anyone know of a page that lists command line configuration
utilities included with Windows 95/98/ME vs. Windows NT4/2000/XP?

--FYI: There are links to outside sites like download.com, Hummingbird's
free-beer SOCKS proxy, etc.

--Documentation of printing is sparse since I don't really do it much.
Does anyone have extensive documentation of their complex setup?

--There's basically nothing on Java except a sample about translating
the CLASSPATH to DOS format. I'm not sure what else to put in. There are
no Cygwin-native java compilers, right? 

Thanks.
Joshua Daniel Franklin

Attached is the text.

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