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RE: [h-e-w] pb with the use of Merge
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Jeff Dwork |
Subject: |
RE: [h-e-w] pb with the use of Merge |
Date: |
Fri, 4 May 2007 15:49:01 -0700 |
Check out Windows Services for Unix from Microsoft
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/interopmigration/bb380242.aspx
or search for "Services for Unix" from http://www.microsoft.com/
Works on Windows XP, Windows 2k, Windows Server 2003
Jeff
Phil Betts writes:
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: RE: [h-e-w] pb with the use of Merge
> Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 17:58:04 +0100
>
> LaurentHelpEmacsWind wrote on Friday, May 04, 2007 11:31 AM::
>
> > Phil Betts a écrit :
> >
> >>
> >> For me, running Windows without cygwin would be unthinkable.
> >>
> >>
> > All right, I will try that.
> > May you give me some examples about the fact that it is for you
> > unthinkable to work with windows without cygwin ?
>
> Well, I program on Unix for a living, and when you're used to
> the sort of power that bash and the common Unix utilities provide,
> trying to live with cmd and the half-baked MS "equivalents" of
> Unix utilities just won't work.
>
> E.g. last night, I had 200+ photos in directory "original" that
> needed to be resized, leaving the resized copies in directory
> "smaller".
>
> In bash, I just did this:
>
> for i in original/*.jpg;do convert -resize 50% $i smaller/`basename $i`;done
>
> Try doing that in one line in cmd.
>
> It's amazing just how quickly one can do powerful things on
> the command line in bash with the Unix utils.
>
> By contrast, it's amazing how hard it is to force cmd (or Windows
> GUI programs) to do anything really useful, unless the person who
> wrote it consciously coded for that task.
>
>
>
>
>
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- Re: [h-e-w] pb with the use of Merge, (continued)
- Re: [h-e-w] pb with the use of Merge, Eli Zaretskii, 2007/05/04
- Re: [h-e-w] pb with the use of Merge, LaurentHelpEmacsWind, 2007/05/04
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- RE: [h-e-w] pb with the use of Merge, Phil Betts, 2007/05/04
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