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Re: Installing Cron on Windows 2003 Server...
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>
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- Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 13:20:58 -0400
- Subject: Re: Installing Cron on Windows 2003 Server...
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On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 05:04:34PM -0000, Dave Korn wrote:
>On 16 March 2007 17:00, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 09:50:36AM -0500, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
>>>Dave Korn wrote:
>>>>Ctrl+D is a better way to close the file actually. If you mean EOF,
>>>>why not *say* EOF? :-)
>>>
>>>...because CTRL-D doesn't work on all platforms, and I was too lazy to
>>>check if it did on Cygwin. :-)
>>
>>Wow, now *that's* lazy... :-)
>
>What confuses me is how you can be 'too lazy' to check if Ctrl-D works,
>but apparently checking if Ctrl-C works is much much easier....
>
>Well, that plus the "Ctrl-d doesn't work on all platforms" bit. Are we
>still talking posix here or no?
Well, there's also the puzzling part that it takes more effort to type
CTRL-C than it does to type CTRL-D, since you have to move your middle
finger down a row...
cgf