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Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 06:02:25 +0200
From: Thomas Baker <thomas DOT baker AT bi DOT fhg DOT de>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: running mks toolkit and cygwin on same machine
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In-Reply-To: <20020710054039.A1832@mail.gmd.de>; from thomas.baker@bi.fhg.de on Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 05:40:39AM +0200

On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 05:40:39AM +0200, Thomas Baker wrote:
> I also installed the ATT ksh -- there was a thread about this
> two or three weeks ago -- but understand that a KSH package
> for the standard Cygwin setup is on the way.  Have also had
> some small problems porting scripts, one of which being that
> "egrep" must always be changed to "grep -E".

Though Cygwin seems to have left MKS in the dust for most
of the functions I am interested in -- vim vs. vi, mutt
vs. mailx, fetchmail vs. something-that-didn't-work-for-me,
procmail vs. nothing -- there are a few commands that I still
use in their MKS versions:

    cpio      - is this out of fashion now, or what?
    flip      - changes CRLF endings; no equivalent in Cygwin?
    more      - sometimes I do not want the text to disappear from
                the screen on exit
    find/grep - the MKS versions can handle larger numbers of 
                arguments, though xargs solves the problem in Cygwin
    rev       - reverse order of characters in a line

Tom

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