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Windows under submission

Using Cygwin, I’ve finally managed to turn a Windows XP machine into a usable imitation of a UNIX system, for some script processing that requires a program (Event Viewer log converter) not available or create-able on a Linux box.

This entry was posted on Monday, February 28th, 2005 at 1:27 pm
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2 Responses to 'Windows under submission'

  1. Tony Says:
    March 2nd, 2005 at 10:08 am

    I use Cygwin at work all the time. Turn on XDMCP on one of the servers and run X. It’s nice having both worlds at the same time. :)

  2. mrbill Says:
    March 2nd, 2005 at 10:18 am

    I’m running into the “services such as crontab can’t use network-mapped drives” problem. bah.