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I don't understand. I put cygwin in my path, and I can run grep/less from a normal DOS terminal.
by jorgem 14y ago
I don't understand. I put cygwin in my path, and I can run grep/less from a normal DOS terminal.
- TylerE 14y agoYou can run into some weirdness there with commands that exist in both DOS and Unix, if you aren't careful. echo, find, sort, etc.
- dredmorbius 14y agoNo issues with terminal handling? I've always found the DOS terminal to be very dissatisfying. I recall when I first encountered WinNT40WS, which a colleague had billed as "a multiuser OS with a full shell", that, other than the lack of a full shell and useful utilities (I rapidly discovered MKS, UWIN, and Cygwin, followed very shortly thereafter with Linux, which supplanted the original OS a few months later), was the absolute crap terminal support. That this is still the case (from my relatively minimal experiences/exposure to Win7) can just be piled on top of the large heap of embarrassments Microsoft have produced). When installing Cygwin, among the first things I do is create a shortcut using the rxvt (non-X) client, with a command to launch a log-in shell session, with appropriate font and color settings. You can even run Windows commands and shells within this, though of course, they will also break in some full-screen instances. Mostly I just avoid the whole problem. Pretty successfully for months at a stretch these days.