RE: [h-e-w] pb with the use of Merge

[Jeff Dwork]

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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