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Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 16:17:20 -0400
From: Wilson Farrell <wfarrell AT bbn DOT com>
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Chris Mason wrote:
> 
> I am  a big user of Linux for servers and Win2K for my workstations, and I
> am facinated with cygwin. Current, I have installed it with Xfree86 so that
> I can forward X11 over SSH with Secure CRT and run KDE from my servers on my
> Windows desktop. That in itself is amazing and worth the time involved, but
> I am very interested to hear what other reasons people would use cygwin. As
> I can run any unix program on my Linux servers or laptop, is there a role
> for cygwin?
> Thanks
> 

Because cmd.exe sucks and I prefer / over c:\. :)  Seriously.  In my
work I am forced (by virtue of MSOffice; StarOffice really doesn't cut
the mustard) to have a windows operating system on my laptop.  It is
nice to have a unix environment in which to develop.  Cygwin comes with
a ton of utilities that would be a pain to acquire on a pure windows
system: grep, tar, gzip, perl, vi, cvs, ssh, and the list goes on.  

Its free and its great.  What other reasons do you need.

wilson

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