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Subject: Re: SanDisk U3
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On 10/24/06, Newton Robinson wrote:
>
> I have looked at the apps that are available and most are not something I am
> interested in, however there were a few utilities such as PuTTY that did
> interest me.  I was wondering if anyone was looking into a minimal CYGWIN
> installation for U3.  I think it would be great to have BASH, text
> processing, and other critical tools on the flash drive.
>

I don't see the benefit of U3.  You can put the standalone PuTTY
binaries on ANY flash drive.  You can also install Cygwin to a flash
drive.  Making it portable takes a few extra steps (basically you set
up a bat file which adds the Cygwin mounts to the new computer).

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