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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 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!

My opinion too...

Ignazio


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