cygwin

Andrew W. Gaunt quantum at lucent.com
Fri Jan 17 16:20:19 EST 2003


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>In a message dated: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 15:18:07 EST
>bscott at ntisys.com said:
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>> How about this:  One Linux machine in a central location.  Classroom
>>systems running MS-Windows, with Cygwin.  SSH to Linux machine.  Use SSH X11
>>forwarding and the X server that comes with Cygwin, and you can run X11
>>programs as well.  Not only does that give them a real Unix system, but it
>>nicely demonstrates Unix's excellent remote access capabilities.
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This scenario is something that one might find it the real world as 
well, it's what I do every day anyway.
It will also reveals some of the differences when one compares the 
'real' *nix to the cygwin environment.
/bin/ls vs. /bin/ls.exe  to name example.

-Andrew Gaunt





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