Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-Id: <6.0.0.9.0.20030617133945.0cf31af0@rogue.codemeta.com> X-Sender: lee AT rogue DOT codemeta DOT com (Unverified) Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 19:27:46 -0400 To: dds AT aueb DOT gr From: "Lee D. Rothstein" Subject: Outwit -- UNIX-style utilities for Windows Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Professor Spinnellis, First, thank you for the nice little package of utilities -- Outwit (http://www.dmst.aueb.gr/dds/sw/outwit) -- that allow for the integration of scripts with Windows applications. I am a Cygwin user and was about to write my first utility (using Cygwin/GNU tools) -- a clipboard to and from stdio, for Windows, but first I decided to do a web search. On Altavista, using: '((standard near (input | output)) | stdio) near (clipboard & Cygwin)' ) I found 'winclip', and eventually your entire package, Outwit. Second, there are several small problems with the documentation for the various commands. * More as a curiosity, than anything else, can you tell me why the formatted man pages ('.txt' or '.pdf') for 'readlink' have a header of "Winreg(1) ... Winreg(1)"? Perhaps the footer of "1 April 2000" contains a clue? ;-) * 'winreg' PDF file is corrupt. '.txt' file is fine. * I think there was one other document corruption problem, but I can't find it, now. Thanks, again, Lee P.S. I've taken the liberty of CCing this message to the Cygwin discussion email list, so that your package will get some "press" among the Cygwinners. Cygwinners: Outwit contains: - winclip.exe -- copy text to and from the clipboard and stdio. Note that even if you have GNU 'xclipboard.exe' running under Cygwin, it doesn't do you much good with native Windows applications, so you really need 'winclip' in order to use UNIX-style tools in the Windows environment. Note that not even 'winclip' can save you when you have a Windows application like ACDSee, that won't output image bitmap sizes (found in its default GUI directory listing) to any clipboard or stdio copyable "surface". (Getting this info, in soft format, is really useful for resizing images in HTML.) - docprop.exe -- Print properties of an OLE structured storage document. "Document properties" -- as in 'winword' / File / Properties. (This may also work with Open Office. [?] Haven't had a chance to try it, yet.) - odbc.exe -- SQL queries (select command) from the command line with output, as text, to stdout - readlink.exe -- Resolve Windows shortcuts; Unpack the actual path and operation of a shortcut - readlog.exe -- Text-based access to the Windows event log. Now, you and your scripts can be keenly aware of why Windoze "thinks" it is crashing. ;-) - winreg.exe -- Text-based access to the registry. Scarey, but utilitarian. All files, including documentation ('man' style output) in both text and PDF formats are available, along with a white paper about the entire package. Looks like it might be a nice addition to Cygwin? Lee -- Lee D. Rothstein -- lee AT veritech DOT com VeriTech -- 603-424-2900 7 Merry Meeting Drive Merrimack, NH 03054-2934 -- 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/