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Subject: RE: Cygwin is saving my ass
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:07:34 -0000
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Robert Latest wrote on 25 March 2008 08:50:

> Enter corporate IT. For four weeks now I've been holding my first real
> industry job. And I'm locked into a M$ Windows PC. God, I hadn't known
> just how much Windows sucks. Everything around here is done with
> Access and Excel and lots of ultra-slow VBA glue to hold it more or
> less together. Lotus Notes for appointments and email. Well, that's
> not going to change, but who helps ME to get MY work done?
> 
> Enter Cygwin. Finally, things flow again. What a relief. Thanks, guys.

  :)  I think you speak for quite a lot of people here when you say that.  I
couldn't function in my day-to-day work without a real shell, and grep and
sed, and all the gnu tools.  Cygwin makes windows worth using!


    cheers,
      DaveK
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