Re: Forum for sharing windows-specific 'bash' scripts.

[Jason Dufair <jase at dufair dot org>]

I'd love to see the scripts.  I have written some of my own, but have 
run into the full name and path problem.  Please post.

Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

> On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Lee D. Rothstein wrote:
>
>  
>
> > Because of a number of problems in backup, I have written a
> > couple of Cygwin-specific bash scripts that I use to backup my
> > system. Is there a forum for sharing these kinds of things? (Of
> > course, they use 'bzip' and 'tar'.) BTW, I am not convinced that
> > these scripts will save the "free world" from the heartbreak of
> > psoriasis. Rather, I think that my script and others like it will
> > benefit from sharing of ideas and "peer review". However, they
> > are undeserving of full-fledged open
> > source/Freshmeat/SourceForge/... treatment.
> >
> > One of the interesting motives of these scripts, BTW, is
> > preserving the full names and paths of the original files and
> > directories on NTFS, when they are copied to other media such
> > as CD-R/RW, Firewire and FAT ... devices.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Lee
> >    
>
> So...  What's the question? ;-)
>
> If you were simply planning to announce the scripts, then this probably is
> the best forum (in which case you might also want to attach them).
>
> Alternatively, you could try providing (and maintaining) them as a Cygwin
> package (which is not as hard as people think), and see if they get
> accepted/voted for.
> 	Igor
>  

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