From: Jacob Peck <gatesphere@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: UWIN?
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 08:21:18 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51BB0ABE.8020304@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000f01ce68ee$1465bcc0$3d313640$@net>
On 6/14/2013 6:58 AM, Bill Meahan wrote:
> Hans wrote:
>
>>> Just wondering: why are users using unix shells on windows for
> running tex? does it have advantages?
>
>>> Or is the availability of unix commands the main reason?
> In no particular order:
>
> The Unix utilities, richer scripting language, compatibility with
> existing Unix systems one might need to deal with. Familiarity for
> those of us who have spent many more years working with Unix than
> Windows.
>
> If you need/want a GUI interface, Windows is great and that's where
> the applications are, for the most part.
> If you need/want a command-line environment, Unix is much more
> capable and powerful than the DOS world of the Windows command line.
>
> Something like UWIN or Cygwin allows one to have both.
>
> I have no familiarity at all with Macs since using the original Mac
> Plus to publish a newsletter in the late 1980's so I'm not
> slighting/disparaging Macs in any way. I won't comment on what I
> don't know about.
>
> [Bill Meahan]
Agreed completely. That being said, I run the Windows ConTeXt
standalone through cygwin, because it just works.
-->Jake
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-14 12:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-14 0:46 UWIN? Bill Meahan
2013-06-14 7:07 ` UWIN? luigi scarso
2013-06-14 7:40 ` UWIN? Hans Hagen
2013-06-14 10:58 ` UWIN? Bill Meahan
2013-06-14 12:21 ` Jacob Peck [this message]
2013-06-14 19:05 ` UWIN? Mojca Miklavec
2013-06-14 19:13 ` UWIN? Jacob Peck
2013-06-14 20:14 ` UWIN? Mojca Miklavec
2013-06-14 21:51 ` UWIN? Jacob Peck
2013-06-15 15:48 ` UWIN? Bill Meahan
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