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Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 13:23:02 -0500
From: Jason Dufair <jase AT dufair DOT org>
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Subject: Re: Forum for sharing windows-specific 'bash' scripts.
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I'd love to see the scripts.  I have written some of my own, but have 
run into the full name and path problem.  Please post.

Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

>On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Lee D. Rothstein wrote:
>
>  
>
>>Because of a number of problems in backup, I have written a
>>couple of Cygwin-specific bash scripts that I use to backup my
>>system. Is there a forum for sharing these kinds of things? (Of
>>course, they use 'bzip' and 'tar'.) BTW, I am not convinced that
>>these scripts will save the "free world" from the heartbreak of
>>psoriasis. Rather, I think that my script and others like it will
>>benefit from sharing of ideas and "peer review". However, they
>>are undeserving of full-fledged open
>>source/Freshmeat/SourceForge/... treatment.
>>
>>One of the interesting motives of these scripts, BTW, is
>>preserving the full names and paths of the original files and
>>directories on NTFS, when they are copied to other media such
>>as CD-R/RW, Firewire and FAT ... devices.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Lee
>>    
>>
>
>So...  What's the question? ;-)
>
>If you were simply planning to announce the scripts, then this probably is
>the best forum (in which case you might also want to attach them).
>
>Alternatively, you could try providing (and maintaining) them as a Cygwin
>package (which is not as hard as people think), and see if they get
>accepted/voted for.
>	Igor
>  
>

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