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to: MAURICE KINAL
from: TONY LANGDON
date: 2016-05-24 12:18:00
subject: Re: Conversion

-=> Maurice Kinal wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

 MK> -={ Tuesday, 24 May 2016, 11:36:09 +1000 }=-

 MK> Hey Tony!

 TL> There is also MinGW, which is also going strong.

 MK> That's the one I was trying to remember.  I haven't heard much about it
 MK> since the 64-bit cpu's overtook the 32-bit ones.

It's still around.  Recommended to be installed alongside Free Pascal (which
I'm getting into, as a Pascal programmer from many years ago).

 TL> Cygwin does include its own version of bash.

 MK> If I recall correctly, also coreutils and many, many other handy-dandy
 MK> gnu et al apps that have become standard fare on most, if indeed not
 MK> all, unixie operating systems.  I believe that coreutils apps might be
 MK> the most used and useful in this neck of the woods and are part and
 MK> parcel of many a well used bash scripts.

Yes, it includes wuite a lot of GNU utilities.


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