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TCSH on Windows XP?

Posted by Cliff on from the shells-on-win32 dept.

An unfortunete XP user... asks: "I find myself having to use a Windows XP Pro machine at work, but I want to convience of tcsh... command.com just doesn't cut it for what I am doing. Has anyone ported a *NIX shell (csh, tcsh, or even sh) to Windows XP Pro?" How well does Cygwin handle the Windows XP environment?

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  1. Cygwin Performance under XP by agrounds · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Cygwin works just fine in XP. I use it daily both at home and at work. The TCSH works well also. I prefer to use BASH myself, but to each his own. Just be sure to select *all* the packages to install them during setup. Yes. This means you have to click the mouse to a version number over and over and over again. Then after the post-install scripts finish running, run setup again to get all the version updates. It sounds silly, but after mass installing this thing, I've found it to be reliable. Also, keep a copy of the setup.exe in the root of the cygwin directory, since you just have to double click it and select a mirror to check and upgrade all your packages.

    To gain access to your windows drives under the cygwin shell, just map a link to the drives like this:

    ln -s /cygdrive/c/ windows

    ln -s /cygdrive/d/ d-drive

    That's it! Enjoy!

  2. unixutil by SpaceLifeForm · · Score: 3, Interesting

    No need for cygwin.
    Find unixutil here.

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