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Some Surprises
- To: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Some Surprises
- From: drs <drs at inxpress dot net>
- Date: Thu, 06 Mar 1997 18:21:56 -0600
- Organization: University of Wisconsin
- References: <01BC2981.5732D380@gbird0>
- Reply-To: drs at inxpress dot net
I had been using gnu-win32 bash, but ran into a confict while using the
JDK,
which would like to have the HOME variable set to the root directory. I
was
pleasantly surprised to find bash will run command.com (a shell within a
shell)
complete with it's own set of environment variables, without complaint.
OK, so I probabably should have known this would work, and also that
command.com
will now respond to commands like "ls". But it was a nice surprise to
see how flexible
the unix style tools are and how relatively complete is the integration
under
gnu-win32. Good Job.
D. Smith
drs@cs.wisc.edu
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