Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20020709212515.01f7d238@pop3.cris.com> X-Sender: rrschulz@pop3.cris.com Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2002 21:31:01 -0700 To: Thomas Baker , cygwin@cygwin.com From: Randall R Schulz Subject: Re: running mks toolkit and cygwin on same machine In-Reply-To: <20020710060225.B1832@mail.gmd.de> References: <20020710054039.A1832@mail.gmd.de> <3D2B06C2.4090608@telesoft.com> <3.0.6.32.20020709173509.00aa6930@phoenix.projtech.com> <20020710054039.A1832@mail.gmd.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Thomas, - cpio Available, though little used, to my knowledge - flip Use dos2unix and unix2dos - more Available, as is "less" a superior alternative - find / grep (arg list limits) All Unix / POSIX systems have argument list length limits, which is at least one reason why "xargs" exists. - rev Unavailable, as far as I know Randall Schulz Mountain View, CA USA At 21:02 2002-07-09, Thomas Baker wrote: >On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 05:40:39AM +0200, Thomas Baker wrote: > > I also installed the ATT ksh -- there was a thread about this > > two or three weeks ago -- but understand that a KSH package > > for the standard Cygwin setup is on the way. Have also had > > some small problems porting scripts, one of which being that > > "egrep" must always be changed to "grep -E". > >Though Cygwin seems to have left MKS in the dust for most >of the functions I am interested in -- vim vs. vi, mutt >vs. mailx, fetchmail vs. something-that-didn't-work-for-me, >procmail vs. nothing -- there are a few commands that I still >use in their MKS versions: > > cpio - is this out of fashion now, or what? > flip - changes CRLF endings; no equivalent in Cygwin? > more - sometimes I do not want the text to disappear from > the screen on exit > find/grep - the MKS versions can handle larger numbers of > arguments, though xargs solves the problem in Cygwin > rev - reverse order of characters in a line > >Tom -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/