Regarding porting of *nix functionality to MS:
There are other ways to do this, but check out Dave Korn's UWIN package.
Get the basic and the perl part and install them under windows to have
*nix terminal functionality.
http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/uwin/
When I am forced to use a Microsoft disabled machine the only thing that
keeps me sane is the Uwin terminal window and tools.
This is still highly suboptimal for me as I use a lot of special functions
in R/S that drop to shell etc, but with copies of R and uwin you can get
a lot done despite Mr Gates best intentions.
SDB
On Sat, 23 Feb 2002, Michael Prager wrote:
|At 07:39 AM 02/23/2002 -0500, Frank Harrell wrote:
|
|>... when I ditched Windows 2000 and went to the real thing (Linux) I found
|>out what I had been missing trying to get things working in Windows
|>(especially easy of installation of Emacs, LaTeX, etc., speed, true
|>operating system with symbolic links, etc.). -Frank Harrell
|
|I feel rather ungracious nitpicking the generous Frank Harrell, and I am no
|Windows apologist, but to me what the above suggests is mainly that those
|who have developed tools under *ix have done a poor job of porting them to
|Windows. If *ix is taken as the "true" operating system, all others will
|forever fail to meet the standard. It is perhaps less romantic to hold
|that each system has its faults and merits and that an operating system's
|worth cannot be judged by how well it runs software designed for another
|system and ported in someone's spare time.
|
|I prefer operating systems that don't require of the user a working
|knowledge of octal.
|
|By the way, none of my DOS batch files run worth a d**n on Linux --
|especially the ones that try to access the command line before the shell
|has transformed it.
|
|Anyway, aren't we lucky that S language implementations are available for a
|choice of environments?
|
|MHP
|
|(None of the above is to be construed as NOAA opinion or endorsement.)
|
|
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|Michael Prager, Ph.D. <Mike.Prager@noaa.gov>
|NOAA Beaufort Laboratory
|Beaufort, North Carolina 28516
|http://shrimp.ccfhrb.noaa.gov/~mprager/
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