Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs>
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: <014001c49bee$3d2b0dd0$78d96f83@robinson.cam.ac.uk>
From: "Max Bowsher" <maxb AT ukf DOT net>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>, "John Proffitt" <john DOT proffitt AT charter DOT net>
References: <loom DOT 20040916T144125-367 AT post DOT gmane DOT org>
Subject: Re: ed for cygwin
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 14:08:00 +0100
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Cam-ScannerInfo: http://www.cam.ac.uk/cs/email/scanner/
X-Cam-AntiVirus: No virus found
X-Cam-SpamDetails: Not scanned
X-IsSubscribed: yes
Note-from-DJ: This may be spam

John Proffitt wrote:
> I have just loaded cygwin on my computer and it looks great.  I have 
> started
> to experiment with my unix script files to see what modifications will be
> needed.  Many of my script files use the ed editor to manipulate files and
> cygwin does not include the ed editor.

Yes it does.

> Is there a line editor that I can use under cygwin?
> What text editors are supplied with cygwin?

Many.

> Also, I have many perl scripts, how do I load the perl package?

Same way you installed cygwin in the first place.

Take some time browsing through the list of available packages in the setup 
program - there's a *lot* there.

Max.


--
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/