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RE: find



It won't.

Rick
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Rick Rankin
rrankin@primenet.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com
> [mailto:cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com]On Behalf Of Suhaib M.
> Siddiqi
> Sent: Saturday, March 13, 1999 7:27 PM
> To: David's Lightspeed Email; cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Subject: Re: find
>
>
>
> >The MS-DOS "find" is, I agree, useless.
> >As for the "Windows" "find", found in the Windows Explorer Tools menu and
> >also accessible by pressing F-3 normally, this is actually a decent tool.
> >
>
> I am not sure how F-3 will conflicts with Cygwin's find.exe?
> Any suggestions please
>
> --Suhaib
>
>
> >                                     David L. Painter
> >                                     dpainter@prontomail.com
> >                                     dpainter@lightspeed.net
> >                                     ph: (559) 292-5366 * 3
> >                                     fax:(559) 292-0410
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Suhaib M. Siddiqi <Ssiddiqi@InspirePharm.Com>
> >To: Rick Rankin <rrankin@primenet.com>
> >Cc: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
> >Date: Saturday, March 13, 1999 5:23 PM
> >Subject: Re: find, ksh, and job control
> >
> >
> >>
> >>-
> >>
> >>>But are there really enough command name conflicts to justify
> all that? I
> >>>haven't really checked, but the only one I'm really aware of
> is find, and
> >>>the windows find command is pretty useless anyway.
> >>
> >>After a little back and forth writing you are basically syaing the same
> >>thing
> >>*Windows find is useless.*
> >>
> >>If you have Windows Nt UNIX option pack installed then there are a whole
> >lot
> >>of conflicts if you add Cygwin to your WinNT path.
> >>
> >>>Personally, I am
> >>>perfectly happy putting the cygwin bin in my path ahead of windows or
> >>winnt,
> >>>but if there are other name clashes, perhaps another method is
> warranted.
> >>>
> >>
> >>If I rememebr correctly, a while ago, some user wrote he deleted cmd.exe
> >and
> >>replaced is by bash.exe.  I think it is all personal
> preferences what you
> >>like to see, do and are used to of.
> >>
> >>>Rick
> >>>--
> >>>Rick Rankin
> >>>rrankin@primenet.com
> >>>
> >>>> -----Original Message-----
> >>>> From: Suhaib M. Siddiqi [mailto:Ssiddiqi@InspirePharm.Com]
> >>>> Sent: Saturday, March 13, 1999 6:01 PM
> >>>> To: Rick Rankin; cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
> >>>> Subject: Re: find, ksh, and job control
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> >> If you are on NT do not include Cygwin to PATH.  Best start Cygwin
> by
> >>>> >                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >>>> >Why not? I have it in my path because I want to be able to
> run cygwin
> >>>> >commands from bash or from cmd.exe.
> >>>> >
> >>>>
> >>>> I can also run cygwin commands from cmd.exe.  For this purpose, I
> >created
> >>>> another batch file, called cygnus-dos.bat and replashed the
> *bash* with
> >>>> *cmd*  If I start NT cmd.exe using this my *cygnus-dos.bat* file,
> >>>> I can use
> >>>> all of my cygwin commands from cmd.exe prompt, and stll do
> not get any
> >>>> conflicts.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> --SMS
> >>>>
> >>>> >Rick
> >>>> >--
> >>>> >Rick Rankin
> >>>> >rrankin@primenet.com
> >>>> >
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
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