Installing Cron on Windows 2003 Server...

[Matthew Woehlke]

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....

I haven't run into a platform where CTRL-C doesn't work. Therefore 
saying "ctrl-C" required no effort on my part. "none" < "some". :-)

>   Well, that plus the "Ctrl-d doesn't work on all platforms" bit.  Are we
> still talking posix here or no?

Well, now that you made me go look, I can't find the platform that 
doesn't like ctrl-D... but I know I've had problems in the past. Maybe 
it was NSK. ;-)

-- 
Matthew
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"What is it?"
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