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: Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2004 17:48:45 -0800 From: Joshua Daniel Franklin Reply-To: Joshua Daniel Franklin To: Cygwin List Subject: more Cygwin Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Emmett, I enjoyed reading your article "Comparing Cygwin and MKS Toolkit" at and have a couple comments. First, 'more' actually is available for Cygwin (I did a quick port a long time ago), it's just not installed by default. Look for it "Text" category in the Cygwin setup.exe package chooser. As for the default shell, I agree that changing it to pdksh or zsh isn't as easy as it could be. I'd also like to mention that while Cygwin is free (as in both no price and freedom), like other open source projects the developers are also users who are building their own skills and having fun. So in that sense I like Neal Stephenson's analogy that open source is like car enthusiasts. Sure, you can get a free car out of the deal, but the real point is that enthusiasts like to build cars and find the thought of a poorly built one ludicrous. Anyway, thanks for your positive remarks about Cygwin, Joshua Daniel Franklin p.s. I haven't used it, but if you ever do another comparison you might include UWIN, which I believe does use ksh by default: -- 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/