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: <200207171911300750.0269A6C6@mail.frontier.net> In-Reply-To: <20020717190217.C19529@kinaole.org> References: <200207171828360484.02425F0C@mail.frontier.net> <20020717190217.C19529@kinaole.org> Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 19:11:30 -0600 Reply-To: Bruce@EckelObjects.com From: "Bruce Eckel" To: "Dave Price" , cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Thanks Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Yep, for sure. Two big problems solved, when using makefiles (which I use a lot under Windows, with Python, to build things): 1) backslashes vs forward slashes. Not so big, but annoying 2) command line length! Was a real problem. *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 7/17/2002 at 7:02 PM Dave Price wrote: >On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 06:28:36PM -0600, Bruce Eckel wrote: >> Wanted to make sure you all know you're appreciated. Cygwin has >> solved *so* many problems for me, it is a completely indispensable >> part of Windows for me now. Thanks so much. > >Here Here! - especially the part about an indispensable 'part of >windows'. I am a command prompt junky anyway; now I keep a cygwin >prompt available on any win box i need to use regurlarly. > >aloha, >dave Most current information can be found at: http://www.mindview.net/Etc/notes.html =================== Bruce Eckel http://www.BruceEckel.com Contains free electronic books: "Thinking in Java 2e" & "Thinking in C++ 2e" Please subscribe to my free newsletter -- just send any email to: join-eckel-oo-programming@earth.lyris.net My schedule can be found at: http://www.mindview.net/Calendar =================== -- 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/