Re: MinGW port - initial work uploaded
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- Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
- Date
- Jan 23, 2007, 15:06 UTC
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- <200701231506.32396.andyparkins@gmail.com>
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- <Pine.LNX.4.63.0701231518310.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
On Tuesday 2007 January 23 14:21, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> Uhm. You do understand that we use MinGW to port to, not _plain_ Windows? > So we do have a "less".
Nope; I didn't. Oh dear. I've obviously misunderstood. I thought MinGW was for compiling to native Windows? Do you use MinGW to compile to cygwin as well?
> That was not Windows. That was DOS.
I'm sure pipes were still awful in Win98. I accept though, that it is possible Windows has changed in the last 9 years :-)
> With less, on the other hand, you just exit the pager, or let it search > through stdin. It is so much more convenient.
That sounds better than I remember. You'll have talked me into migrating to Windows soon :-)
Andy
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