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 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Andrew DeFaria Subject: Re: Licensing fee for Cygwin 1.3.X Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 10:33:26 -0700 Lines: 20 Message-ID: <3EA57CE6.4010806@Salira.com> References: <20030421234935.28536.qmail@web11203.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, ru, zh Robert Hua wrote: > I am using my own custom DOS batch scripts to facilitate the launching > of a commercial application. Some enhancements that I want to make in > these scripts require more complex text > manipulation than DOS can provide, but they are simple to do in a Unix > shell (bash). > > Could the Unix text commands (e.g. grep, more, tail, etc) in Cygwin > 1.3.x be used without incurring additional licensing fees? If a > licensing fee is required under version 1.3.x, is it also required in > a "pre-commercial" release of Cygwin (e.g. B19, B20.1)? You'd be surprised by what you can do in the Windows shell nowadays. I know I was though I still prefer the Unix environment. I suggest you give thought to perhaps just using cmd and avoiding all the licensing issues. See news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.win2000.cmdprompt.admin for experts. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/