XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10   
   From: nospam@needed.invalid   
      
   On Sat, 11/1/2025 9:33 AM, s|b wrote:   
   > On Sat, 1 Nov 2025 05:59:54 -0400, Paul wrote:   
   >   
   >> Here is a picture of a Cygwin tree in Windows, under the C: drive.   
   >>   
   >>    [Picture]   
   >>   
   >>     https://i.postimg.cc/xCvsKMYT/cygwin-in-windows.gif   
   >>   
   >> There are EXE files in the bin directory there.   
   >   
   > And you simply run these under Command Prompt?   
   >   
   >> For example:   
   >>   
   >>    C:\cygwin\bin\dd --help   
   >>   
   >>    Usage: /usr/bin/dd [OPERAND]...   
   >>      or:  /usr/bin/dd OPTION   
   >>    Copy a file, converting and formatting according to the operands.   
   >>   
   >>      bs=BYTES        read and write up to BYTES bytes at a time (default:   
   512);   
   >>                      overrides ibs and obs   
   >>      cbs=BYTES       convert BYTES bytes at a time   
   >>   
   >> There is the usual set of utilities there.   
   >>   
   >> It bears some similarity to this, only with   
   >> slight differences on namespace and line endings perhaps.   
   >>   
   >> https://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/coreutils.htm   
   >   
   > The usual, he says, that's a lot of utilities! (-;   
   >   
      
   I'm an omnivore, and I'm showing you where I eat lunch.   
   There are lots of little toys. Some are occasionally useful.   
      
   And, I'm not a apex predator. I don't do Docker for example.   
   There are always tricks that are not on the machine.   
      
      Paul   
      
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