X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Ignazio Di Napoli Subject: Re: Cygwin is saving my ass Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 07:41:02 +0100 Lines: 19 Message-ID: References: <029401c88e79$31038380$2708a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Windows/20080213) In-Reply-To: <029401c88e79$31038380$2708a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Dave Korn wrote: > Robert Latest wrote on 25 March 2008 08:50: > >> Enter corporate IT. For four weeks now I've been holding my first real >> industry job. And I'm locked into a M$ 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 -- 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/