> My question for the group is this: if you prefer life in Unix but need to > use a Windows box, are there a few programs you find are necessary to stay > sane in a Windows environment? > > From long ago, I recall using cygwin but do not know of its current state > or value.
Back when I needed a Corp IT Win?? to Win7 laptop to connect to Linux and Unix boxes (2000-2013), I requisitioned liscensed copies of MKS-ToolKit, Hummingbird Xwindows, and Putty SSH to make Windows play nice. I'd used MKS-tk for a decade before that, going back when they were transitionally shipping both perl4 and perl5. (Prior to that I was an AWK guy.) I preferred MKS-tk for bash on win because it would let a shellscript launch windows executables off the Windows path, which was harder to arrange with cygwin. With the WSL today in Win10, maybe none of that is needed now, IDK. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
