Re: Cygwin is saving my ass

2008-03-31 Thread Morgan gangwere
here's never time to do it rite, but there's always time to do it over. > -Original Message- > From: Morgan gangwere [...] Sent: Friday, March 28, 2008 1:05 PM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: Cygwin is saving my ass I wrote a nice little python script to do that...

Re: Cygwin is saving my ass

2008-03-31 Thread Morgan gangwere
DePriest, Jason R. wrote: On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Morgan gangwere <> wrote: Without cygwin, i wouldnt have my directory sorting algorithm running on windows. DOS has no way of (easily) sorting files into c:\{YEAR}\{MONTH}\{MIMETYPE}\ (where Year Month and Mimetype are the year month

RE: Cygwin is saving my ass

2008-03-31 Thread Stepp, Charles
always time to do it over. -Original Message- From: Morgan gangwere [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 28, 2008 1:05 PM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Cygwin is saving my ass Without cygwin, i wouldnt have my directory sorting algorithm running on windows. DOS has no way of (eas

Re: Cygwin is saving my ass

2008-03-29 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Morgan gangwere <> wrote: > Without cygwin, i wouldnt have my directory sorting algorithm running on > windows. DOS has no way of (easily) sorting files into > c:\{YEAR}\{MONTH}\{MIMETYPE}\ > (where Year Month and Mimetype are the year month and mimetype of the

Re: Cygwin is saving my ass

2008-03-28 Thread Morgan gangwere
Without cygwin, i wouldnt have my directory sorting algorithm running on windows. DOS has no way of (easily) sorting files into c:\{YEAR}\{MONTH}\{MIMETYPE}\ (where Year Month and Mimetype are the year month and mimetype of the file in a list of oh say 3 files.) i _could_ impliment this in

Re: Cygwin is saving my ass

2008-03-27 Thread Steven Woody
The world would get even better if there were on windows at all:-) On 3/27/08, Ignazio Di Napoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dave Korn wrote: > > 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

Re: Cygwin is saving my ass

2008-03-26 Thread Ignazio Di Napoli
Dave Korn wrote: 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 o

Re: Cygwin is saving my ass

2008-03-25 Thread Reini Urban
2008/3/25, Dave Korn: > 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 > > Acce

RE: Cygwin is saving my ass

2008-03-25 Thread Dave Korn
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

Cygwin is saving my ass

2008-03-25 Thread Robert Latest
Hello friends, Years ago, I heard of cygwin and installed it on a Windows PC that I occasionally had to use -- just to have access to bash and find, actually. Well, I liked it OK but viewed it as a more or less superfluous toy. I mean, why use cygwin when you can have a native, full-blown Linux sy