X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org From: "Dave Korn" To: "'cygwin'" References: Subject: RE: Cygwin is saving my ass Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:07:34 -0000 Message-ID: <029401c88e79$31038380$2708a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Robert Latest wrote on 25 March 2008 08:50: > Enter corporate IT. For four weeks now I've been holding my first real > industry job. And I'm locked into a M$ 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! cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- 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/