[plug] Cygwin

[Kev]

Whilst looking around wrt scripting languages I came upon this.

http://x.cygwin.com/

Anyone have any experience?  Here's an excerpt about it ...

"The Cygwin tools are ports of the popular GNU development tools for 
Microsoft Windows. They run thanks to the Cygwin library which provides 
the UNIX system calls and environment these programs expect.

With these tools installed, it is possible to write Win32 console or GUI 
applications that make use of the standard Microsoft Win32 API and/or 
the Cygwin API. As a result, it is possible to easily port many 
significant Unix programs without the need for extensive changes to the 
source code. This includes configuring and building most of the 
available GNU software (including the packages included with the Cygwin 
development tools themselves). Even if the development tools are of 
little to no use to you, you may have interest in the many standard Unix 
utilities provided with the package. They can be used both from the bash 
shell (provided) or from the standard Windows command shell."


I figure that a bash shell in Windoze could make it much more useful.

Kev
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