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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 24 Sep 2009, 12:45)
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Quite right too.Vista was the final push for me to move completely over to Linux.
I still use DOS at work (where I have no choice but to use windows) for things mention in the OP - batch renaming of files, quick searching etc...(I simply cannot work out how to make that search thing in Vista actually search - too many times have I used it to search for something and it to come back as say 'no files found', then do a "dir /s *.doc" or whatever, and viola! there's the file I was looking for.
Although I got caught out too many times typing "ls -l" so I put a batch file "ls.bat" in the path ;-)
(, Wed 30 Sep 2009, 13:53, 1 reply)
You may be a fan ofcygwin.
It's a horrible, horrible hack, but if you have to use it then you have to use it. Gives you all the good GNU stuff under Windows.
(, Wed 30 Sep 2009, 13:57, closed)
I havetoyed with cygwin, but I could never get it installed using my Vista box. Constant errors for some reason. I gave up - this was an early(ish) version of Vista though, so I may try again.
(, Wed 30 Sep 2009, 14:03, closed)
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