Welcome to Microsoft !!!

[jon]

about the command shell,has anyone try cygwin on vista?It's perfect for
linux users,nearly everything you need ssh vi gcc perl python etc,I even run
sqsh within it to admin sql server.

On 4/23/07, James Knott <james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> Walter Dnes wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 02:24:09PM -0400, James Knott wrote
> >
> >
> >> It's terrible, even without comparison to bash.  It's worse than the
> >> command line in earlier versions of Windows or even good(?) ol' DOSKEY
> >>
> >
> >   Actually, DOSKEY is a command in the XP DOS shell, so it may still be
> > in Vista.
> >
> >
> The thing I dislike about the command prompt in XP is when you want to
> recall a previous command, you don't know whether to use the up or down
> arrow.  In earlier versions of Windows, it was consistent.  You used up
> arrow to move back and down arrow to move forward through the history,
> just like in Linux.
>
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