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[OT] Re: fcomp ?

Bart Vandewoestyne

2005-08-19, 6:56 pm

On 2005-08-19, Dr Ivan D. Reid <Ivan.Reid@brunel.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> strings can be most useful. Although my desktop is a Windows machine, I
> run cygwin on it to log onto various Linux/Unix machines and read my mail
> on a Sun with pine.

Going slightly off-topic right now, but Ivan, you know that there
is something like PuTTY I guess? If all you want to do is log on
to *nix machine, then PuTTY is a much more lightweight solution
than installing a whole cygwin... See

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/

> Any dodgy attachments that got past the Uni's spam
> catcher? Save to file and run strings to look for Windows library entry-
> points. Suspicious URLs? Retrieve them using wget then do the same.

By the way, wget is also available as a native Windows binary...
it's supposed to be downloadable somewhere from
http://wget.sunsite.dk/ but I see the webpage is updated very
recently and they don't provide a download link yet... Google
should be your friend...

But OK... you probably do more things on your Windows machine
than just using ssh and wget... so actually cygwin might not be a
bad solution after all ;-)

And of course, there's a lot of other Open Source Software for
your Windwos desktop out there... often as a native Windows binary
without the need to install cygwin. You might want to take a look at my
OSSwin page at http://osswin.sourceforge.net/

> It's worth spending a couple of minutes reading the man pages to learn
> how to tailor its behaviour.

OK. Will do.

Best wishes,
Bart

--
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Dr Ivan D. Reid

2005-08-20, 6:59 pm

On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 21:44:33 +0000 (UTC),
Bart Vandewoestyne <MyFirstName.MyLastName@telenet.be>
wrote in <1124484273.194026@seven.kulnet.kuleuven.ac.be>:
> On 2005-08-19, Dr Ivan D. Reid <Ivan.Reid@brunel.ac.uk> wrote:

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> Going slightly off-topic right now, but Ivan, you know that there
> is something like PuTTY I guess? If all you want to do is log on
> to *nix machine, then PuTTY is a much more lightweight solution
> than installing a whole cygwin... See

> http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/

Yes, I usually use PuTTy from home to check mail and news.
At work with a 100 Mbps connection it's handy to run X and throw back
windows to the cygwin display, especially from CERN where I might need
to have rxvt and emacs open in 4 or 5 different library directories at
once when I'm debugging -- fvwm2 with 8 display panes does nicely.

>
> By the way, wget is also available as a native Windows binary...
> it's supposed to be downloadable somewhere from
> http://wget.sunsite.dk/ but I see the webpage is updated very
> recently and they don't provide a download link yet... Google
> should be your friend...

I didn't know that but as I said, I usually have X/fvwm2 running so
a local rxvt window is little more than a mouse click away. It also means
I can load up gfortran for F95 code testing (to stay slightly on-topic).
Cut-'n'-paste works in X windows these days too, and is a bit more convenient
than in a DOS-box.

> But OK... you probably do more things on your Windows machine
> than just using ssh and wget... so actually cygwin might not be a
> bad solution after all ;-)

> And of course, there's a lot of other Open Source Software for
> your Windwos desktop out there... often as a native Windows binary
> without the need to install cygwin. You might want to take a look at my
> OSSwin page at http://osswin.sourceforge.net/

Thanks, I'll do that. There's probably a version of strings for
Windows too, I vaguely recall something for DOS.

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> OK. Will do.

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