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RE: Cygwin is saving my ass
Robert Latest wrote on 25 March 2008 08:50:
> Enter corporate IT. For four weeks now I've been holding my first real
> industry job. And I'm locked into a M$ Windows PC. God, I hadn't known
> just how much Windows sucks. Everything around here is done with
> Access and Excel and lots of ultra-slow VBA glue to hold it more or
> less together. Lotus Notes for appointments and email. Well, that's
> not going to change, but who helps ME to get MY work done?
>
> Enter Cygwin. Finally, things flow again. What a relief. Thanks, guys.
:) I think you speak for quite a lot of people here when you say that. I
couldn't function in my day-to-day work without a real shell, and grep and
sed, and all the gnu tools. Cygwin makes windows worth using!
cheers,
DaveK
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