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Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2002 21:31:01 -0700
To: Thomas Baker <thomas DOT baker AT bi DOT fhg DOT de>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz AT cris DOT com>
Subject: Re: running mks toolkit and cygwin on same machine
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Thomas,

- cpio
   Available, though little used, to my knowledge
- flip
   Use dos2unix and unix2dos
- more
   Available, as is "less" a superior alternative
- find / grep (arg list limits)
   All Unix / POSIX systems have argument list length limits,
   which is at least one reason why "xargs" exists.
- rev
   Unavailable, as far as I know

Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA


At 21:02 2002-07-09, Thomas Baker wrote:
>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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