Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Why should we patch a cygwin utility to promote the use of a non-cygwin shell?
To increase/improve productivity. To move along with the times. No one can argue that Powershell isn't a good shell taking some of the best features of many popular shells before it. > Sending text files as application/octet-stream makes them harder to read in > email. Consider using a text MIME type instead. > You should fix your mailer to not send duplicate copies of a message when > writing to a text-only mailing list. I just used GMails default. I'm not sure if I can do what you want. > And what's wrong with doing this with what cron already provides: > * * * * * /cygdrive/c/windows/system32/windowspowershell/v1.0/powershell - > Command '"c:\documents and settings\blair sutton\my > documents\windowspowershell\test\test.ps1" one two three' This doesn't work. Have you tried? Also why not support any shell - that's what Paul Vixie originally intended right? > I'm not the cron maintainer, but I hope he doesn't bloat the code for this. Four extra lines of code is bloat to you? Perhaps you are being a little sensitive here don't you think? -- 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/
