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Re: running mks toolkit and cygwin on same machine


On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 05:40:39AM +0200, Thomas Baker wrote:
> I also installed the ATT ksh -- there was a thread about this
> two or three weeks ago -- but understand that a KSH package
> for the standard Cygwin setup is on the way.  Have also had
> some small problems porting scripts, one of which being that
> "egrep" must always be changed to "grep -E".

Though Cygwin seems to have left MKS in the dust for most
of the functions I am interested in -- vim vs. vi, mutt
vs. mailx, fetchmail vs. something-that-didn't-work-for-me,
procmail vs. nothing -- there are a few commands that I still
use in their MKS versions:

    cpio      - is this out of fashion now, or what?
    flip      - changes CRLF endings; no equivalent in Cygwin?
    more      - sometimes I do not want the text to disappear from
                the screen on exit
    find/grep - the MKS versions can handle larger numbers of 
                arguments, though xargs solves the problem in Cygwin
    rev       - reverse order of characters in a line

Tom

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