Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/11/12/19:10:51
Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 11:50:19PM +0100, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
>
>>Maybe these are not standard packages for administrators, but since you
>>asked for development packages, these all are basic libraries or
>>compilers for developers.
>
> And, yet, I'm a developer, and I don't have one of those libraries on my
> system.
Then you don't use jed or slrn which are based on slang.
libedit is a readline replacement and probably everybody has it on his
box linked statically into some executable, eg. mysql client.
> I am looking for standard, frequently used linux packages that are
> missing from the cygwin distribution. You certainly can't put "adns" in
> the same classification as bind.
Yep, since adns is just a client and requires bind or another resolver.
> I could have easily gone to the Debian web site and pulled down a list
> of hundreds of packages that are not in Cygwin. My intent was to see
> what people thought was obviously missing.
>
> Do you actually use adns frequently? Somehow I suspect that you don't.
Well, not daily, but it works and I use it occasionally, maybe as often
as I would use dig:
$ adnshost cygwin.com
cygwin.com A INET 12.107.209.250
$ adnshost -tmx cygwin.com
cygwin.com MX 10 sourceware.org ok 0 ok "OK" ( INET 12.107.209.250 )
I like this more than ahost from ares which is of course just an example
how to use ares and not a full blown command line interface to the library:
$ ahost cygwin.com
cygwin.com 12.107.209.250
BTW, ares (now c-ares) is an integral part of curl and probably you use
it every day.
Anyway, I think I got your point. I was really missing top, but today I
learned that it is already part of the distribution.
Do we have the at command? smartmontools? ntfs-progs? some watchdog?
Gerrit
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