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[139.127.71.251]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id pg6sm2565484qeb.5.2013.06.14.05.21.20 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Fri, 14 Jun 2013 05:21:20 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130328 Thunderbird/17.0.5 In-Reply-To: <000f01ce68ee$1465bcc0$3d313640$@net> X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=2607:f8b0:400d:c01::236; country=US X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 06JMcm9jj - 5218767b3e83 - 20130614 (trained as not-spam) X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:82982 Archived-At: 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 > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! > > maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context > webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net > archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ > wiki : http://contextgarden.net > ___________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________