scripting and cygwin

[John]

You are playing the Windoze guy in one of those Mac PC
commercials, yes? Very funny!

Andrew DeFaria wrote:
> John wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I finished the script I have been working on. Unfortunately,
>> this Pee Cee version won't even finish the full data run
>> as it crashes with Zone Alarm. Since I have a long term good
>> relationship with Zone Alarm, I have to write off cygwin.
>>
>> And here are the timings I get from my Windoze cygwin machine
>> vs. my MacBook Os X are (comparable machines):
>>
>> Timings on Windoze cygwin:
>>
>> Foo.txt:
>> Elapsed Time: [0 days 0 hours 0 minutes 53 seconds]
>> My Expenses:
>> Elapsed Time: [0 days 0 hours 4 minutes 19 seconds]
>> Y2007.txt:
>> Zone Alarm crashes ALWAYS, won't even finish
>>
>> Timings on Mac OS X:
>> Foo.txt:
>> Elapsed Time: [0 days 0 hours 0 minutes 3 seconds]
>> My Expenses:
>> Elapsed Time: [0 days 0 hours 0 minutes 9 seconds]
>> Y2007.txt:
>> Elapsed Time: [0 days 0 hours 0 minutes 36 seconds]
>>
>> I am afraid I just have to move all this to my MacBook
>> and forget about Windoze/cygwin.
>>
>> John
> What the hell are you talking about?!? ZoneAlarm sucks. Uninstall it. 
> What does your script do? Who knows. Who cares. You wish to give up on 
> Cygwin. Halaluah! Wonderful. Who the hell cares! Just because you cannot 
> program doesn't mean that others can't.

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