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Re: Summary: Splus vs. R & Linux vs. Windows

To: Matt Calder <calder@phz.com>
Subject: Re: Summary: Splus vs. R & Linux vs. Windows
From: Prof Brian Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 21:44:53 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: <s-news@lists.biostat.wustl.edu>, "Paul, David A" <paulda@BATTELLE.ORG>
In-reply-to: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10202221554100.12430-100000@phz-6>
On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Matt Calder wrote:

>
> On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
>
> >
> > BTW to S.D. Byers: awk, sed etc are POSIX not Unix tools, widely available
> > on Windows and other OSes, and perl has for ages (if not for ever) been
> > cross-platform.
> >
>
>       Right, what windows lacks is a decent shell in which to use these tools.
> If anyone knows otherwise please share.

I use tcsh from ftp.blarg.net/users/amol/tcsh (on a good day, not just
now, though). There are lots of others available, including bash, ash,
zsh.

-- 
Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
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