Re: [GnuWin32-Users] I spoke too quick !! GNU Win32 in a ZSH Environment

[John v. V. <joh...@ya...>]

MSYS (which is sooo kewl, thanks Ernie) has binaries that are unix-y already.

I am installing redhat9 at the moment, ~using GNU Wget :)~ ,cuz I hopelessly
hacked my redhat8 and cant write CDs w/o huge pain.

When I am finished I will copy the msys binaries into the Gnoo-Nix (pokes at
everybody) directories, and then offer the tar and possibly a Fat32 ISO image
if I can get to it today.  They will be on http://thinman.dyndns.org/win32. 
You just copy the exe and adm directories to your C (and c only) drive.  This
is cuz scripts start w/ C:/adm/bin/perl , zsh , etc

I am basically w/ this ZSH/GNUwin32 product because I dont really think that
the GPL really changes the way corp management thinks (redhat), and I respect
the work of individuals much more.

I would be tickled to see Msys grow into a full blown env, but I have very
strong opinions about mounting root in the center of MinGW, I want root to
equal C:/ and I want D:, E:, etc to be mounted via /etc/fstab to reasonable
names like home or opt or cdrom.

I seems that as to the forward and backward slashes, that is just a change of
one character in the C code, nothing too extreme.

But thats just my $0.02 USD.

But hey, great work -- Win32 and GNU are so contradictory it isnt funny, 

John





--- Kees Zeelenberg <kz...@us...> wrote:
> I understand that you would like the programs to print paths with backward
> slashes instead of forward slashes. It could be done, but in general, this
> would require a lot of adaptations, since many programs rely internally on
> the forward slash as path separator and also since it is not always easy to
> determine where the final output strings are created. Moreover, as far as I
> know, Zsh is one of the few programs that doesn't understand forward
> slashes.
> Of course, if demand for backward slashes would grow, and no-one objects to
> this change, it might eventually be done. In the meantime one can pipe
> output through tr '/' '\\'. Or one might change to a shell that understands
> forward slashes, such as MS-Windows Cmd.exe or Cygwin Bash.
> 
> Kees Zeelenberg
> 
> 
> ----- Oorspronkelijk bericht ----- 
> Van: "John van V." <joh...@ya...>
> Aan: <gnu...@li...>
> Verzonden: vrijdag 16 mei 2003 2:21
> Onderwerp: [GnuWin32-Users] GNU Win32 in a ZSH Environment
> 
> 
> >
> > Hello all, I have been using a GNU Environment under a ZSH binary for
> years now
> > and I am very proud of it.
> >
> > It has migrated to many Win32 boxes.  The little devil icon has been
> reported
> > in many random sightings.
> >
> > I have been updating it w/ whatever I can find but I would like to migrate
> to a
> > more logical build sequence.
> >
> > Your tools are, of course, a no brainer, but...the slashes go the wrong
> way.
> >
> > Its a mild annoyance, in most cases, no real harm done w/ one exception.
> >
> > find.exe
> >
> > The out put has to be piped through perl or sed to get the slashes the
> other
> > way.  This requires a wrapper, and well, thats a pain.
> >
> > I would not mind altering the code and compiling myself, but I have
> absolutely
> > no mingw experience, nor have I ever really worked in C, perl and shell
> being
> > my tools.
> >
> > What do you suggest ??
> >
> > Thanks in advance, John
> >
> >
> >
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