Reading Term::ReadKey support for ActiveState Perl and Cygwin

Christopher Faylor cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com
Mon May 22 20:46:00 GMT 2006


On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 01:47:07PM -0500, mwoehlke wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 11:20:09PM -0700, David Christensen wrote:
>>>I recently evaluated Microsoft Services for Unix (SFU), which aims to
>>>...
>>>...
>>>I hope to evaluate UWIN soon.
>>
>>Please don't discuss other, competing products here.
>
>Can we discuss how their inferiorities caused us to move (back) to 
>Cygwin? ;-)

I don't see much point in doing so.  Those kind of discussions always devolve
to "Huh.  U/WIN doesn't even do named pipes!"  "Oh, yes it does!  You just have
to add the named pipes option in the registry!"  "I tried that!"  "What version
of U/WIN do you have?", etc.

cgf



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