Posted by member 101479 on 2004-01-20 05:51:46 link
I would like to say thank you for all the responses I have received, it's really nice to see!
I have now downloaded and installed Cygwin together with the XFree?86 packages. It seems to be really nice. Once the paths are properly set up it seems to work really well. The rxvt shell seems to be the best one (of the ones I tried that came with the Cygwin package), and I can even run the "UNIX"-commands from MS-DOS. Some commands seem to crash on my 4DOS prompt though, like the man command when finishing for example. Too bad one cannot kill processes that is not launched through the shell.
I have so far not run into any serious issues with cygwin and dealing with drives doesn't seem to be an issue either. Although the shell has it's own root (/='cygwin path') other parts of the harddrive and the other units can still be accessed through A:/, B:/, etc.
- Robin.
I have now downloaded and installed Cygwin together with the XFree?86 packages. It seems to be really nice. Once the paths are properly set up it seems to work really well. The rxvt shell seems to be the best one (of the ones I tried that came with the Cygwin package), and I can even run the "UNIX"-commands from MS-DOS. Some commands seem to crash on my 4DOS prompt though, like the man command when finishing for example. Too bad one cannot kill processes that is not launched through the shell.
I have so far not run into any serious issues with cygwin and dealing with drives doesn't seem to be an issue either. Although the shell has it's own root (/='cygwin path') other parts of the harddrive and the other units can still be accessed through A:/, B:/, etc.
- Robin.