Comments on: Cygwin Question…

By: erik weibust

erik weibust — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:39:32 +0000

Richard,

Thanks for stopping by. What is your take on using cron to start and stop services through cygwin? Do you just set them up as windows services or do you use cygwin and cron?

Erik

By: Richard Troth

Richard Troth — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:01:02 +0000

Look in the NCURSES package for a ‘clear’ command.

I use CYGWIN too. Love it!
Not everyone likes it, so I often have to back up and tell my story:
Three years ago, I thought CYGWIN was a toy and terribly unreliable.
But now I find it robust and required. There are three (at least)
POSIX environments for Windows, the one from Microsoft, the one from
Mortice Kern (MKS), and then CYGWIN. Of the three, CYGWIN is
the most complete and the least costly.

By: Erik Weibust

Erik Weibust — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:44:32 +0000

Thanks Ruben!

By: Rubén Laguna

Rubén Laguna — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 06:50:29 +0000

clear command comes with the ncurses package. Run setup again and install ncurses. see the post http://rubenlaguna.com/wp/2007/09/26/bash-clear-command-not-found/ for a screenshot

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 02:11:50 +0000

I agree with your view of must install but my current job and my last job did/do not want to see it loaded.

Just between you me and this keyboard I don’t most of them “got it.”