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1	Your jirb, groovysh and clj Commands Doesn't Work In Cygwin This is another one of those making things work in Cygwin posts. You can safely skip this post if you are not married to Cygwin, or have not followed my Ten Steps To Higher Cygwin Productivity. The issue this time is with a little library called JLin...	Apr 8, 2008
2	Java, Bash, Cygwin, ... I haven't used the A, B, C, ... style title for a while. Today's post calls attention to all distributors of Java products that provides a Windows batch file and a Unix shell script to run their product: YOUR SHELL SCRIPT DOESN'T WORK FOR CYGWIN T...	Mar 10, 2008
3	Using OpenSSH With Cygwin I have learned a few more things about Cygwin since I posted Ten Steps To Higher Cygwin Productivity 14 days ago: I need to add another word smbntsec to my CYGWIN environment variable in order for it to pick up the file permissions from Samba. This ...	Aug 28, 2006
4	Ten Steps To Higher Cygwin Productivity Cygwin is an integral part of my life on Windows boxes. It's the first thing I install when I get on a Windows box. If you take a look at the first screenshot from my new laptop that I posted 9 days ago you will see the Cygwin icon already present...	Aug 14, 2006
5	Could You Run It In A CMD Window? The following exchange happened at work today: Me: Dan, are you sure your build instruction is complete? Dan: I don’t know. What’s your problem? Me: I followed the instructions in your email, but can’t find the executable. Dan: Did...	Jan 13, 2006
6	PostgreSQL 8.1.0 Comes To Cygwin For the longest time, my development relational database of choice has been PostgreSQL. It offers the features that I care about (the simple stuff: create table, select from where order by group by, transactions, JDBC drivers) on the platforms that I ...	Nov 17, 2005
7	Cool Program: w3m Sometimes you just have to stop and take a look around your file system. If you are like me, you'll have a Linux system or a cygwin system with everything installed. And one place to look at is /usr/bin. A game I play when I was bored is to try to ...	Nov 3, 2005
8	ActiveState Perl Under Cygwin Bash On my current project, we use MPC to generate Visual Studio .NET 2003 solution files. It's a set of Perl scripts. Earlier this month, MPC started to fail under Cygwin Perl, and I have to uninstall it and start using ActiveState Perl. To keep on doin...	Mar 23, 2005
9	Cygwin Notes The D programming language arrived at my Cygwin installation today. You just change all your c's to d's :) : [weiqi@gao] $ cat foo.d int main() { printf("hello, world.\n"); } [weiqi@gao] $ gdc -o foo foo.d [weiqi@gao] $ ./foo hello, world The...	Aug 24, 2004
10	Subversion Comes To Cygwin I'm updating my Cygwin installation this morning, as I tend to do from time to time, and just noticed that Subversion 1.0.5 is available now.	Jul 12, 2004
11	Enscript, Cygwin, Lpr, ... I posted an elaborate script for pretty-printing code listings 19 days ago: On Linux systems, enscript is hooked up directly to the default printer, so a simple command like: [weiqi@gao] $ enscript Foo.java will do. On Windows, I use Cygwin to acc...	Apr 26, 2004
12	Pretty Printed Code Listings in Cygwin Been doing a lot of code reviews lately. Aside from turning into a mean person ("Too many 'return's!", "Indentation is wrong!"), I also experienced the non-uniformness of the code printouts various developers bring to the table. While IntelliJ IDEA, ...	Apr 7, 2004
13	The Book I Want to Read I buy and read a lot of books, technical books. But certain books never get written. I have already noted (217 days ago) the lack of books on topics such as Cygwin and libxml2/libxslt. Today, I'm adding Patterns of GUI Application Architecture to th...	Jan 31, 2004
14	Cygwin, Libxml/libxslt, Secret Workhorses, ... I don't know why, but the IT press has not been eager to report on certain Free Software packages. Granted, gone are the days when the IT press won't even acknowledge the existance of GCC in their compiler comparisons. However, there are still powerf...	Jul 28, 2003