Yeah be careful with some of the cygwin tools. I had an issue with the jar command being picked up from cygwin/bin instead of JAVA_HOME and it was corrupting the contents of a jar file.
-george -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of R. Alan Monroe Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 5:24 PM To: tutor@python.org Subject: Re: [Tutor] running scripts with windows >> Cygwin (http://www.cygwin.com/) It gives you a bash shell in >> Windows. > Actually it gives you a whole Unix environment including X Windows and > over 500 unix command line tools plus GNU C, sendmail, etc etc... Watch out, because cygwin-native python can conflict with win32 python, if they're both in your path. Buddy of mine had various .py files not work because of this. Alan _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor