Correct. not that stops me from using it more than the actual XP shell =P
Except for when hardware specifically designed for Windows is involved, I tend to stick with Cygwin these days.
Henk Poley <hpoley@dds.nl> wrote:
> Van: Gavin Olson
>
> At 06:41 PM 12/12/2002 -0800, you wrote:
>
>> But, shells and operating systems are very different by definition...
>> For example, Windows XP is my operating system on this computer, but I
>> run a Linux shell (Cygwin).
>> I would expect Texas Instruments to get this right, being a company....
>> Is it possible that there ARE some actual operating systems?
>
> XP with a non-ms shell? Thats unique. That default XP shell is kinda
> heavy though.
Cygwin is a shell that emulates most parts of the Linux/POSIX syste, under
Windows. Programs (re)compiled for it will run as if it were on linux
(that's the theory at least).
Cygwin is mostly a text based shell, but there's also a X11 server in the
package. Normaly you don't run Cygwin as "the sh ell" just as a console
windows..
Henk Poley <><