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Cygwin Installed on C14 Open Source Free Download from Red Hat Used

0403 -
0403 -    ..
0404 - Summary/Objective
0405 -
040501 - Follow up ref SDS 1 0000.
040502 -
040503 - Installed cygwin for finding files with particular content, since
040504 - this does not seem to work with Windows XP.  The find command seems
040505 - to have complex procedures for specifying a search.
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040511 -
040513 -  ..
0406 -
0407 -
0408 - Progress
0409 -
040901 - Called Morris.
040902 -
040903 - He said there is a program....
040904 -
040905 -                     cygwin
040906 -
040907 - ...people use for running a Linux application which has search
040908 - features to supplement limitations in Windows XP reported on 050228.
040909 - ref SDS 1 F05I
040910 -
040911 -     [On 050516 new Microsoft search techology released, seems to have
040912 -     defects similar to search function in Windows XP. ref SDS 3 606J
040914 -  ..
040915 - Found a source on the Internet that explains cygwin....
040916 -
040917 -        http://www.redhat.com/software/cygwin/
040919 -  ..
040920 - Downloaded cygwin at...
040921 -
040922 -        http://www.cygwin.com/
040924 -  ..
040925 - Saved the installation files in...
040926 -
040927 -            g: 00 cygwin
040929 -  ..
040930 - Online guidance says there is an install.exe program, but this is not
040931 - evident in the files downloaded.
040933 -  ..
040934 - Using the online setup.exe program again, there is an option to
040935 - install from the local directory.  Selected this and...
040937 -  ..
040938 - Install cygwin in....
040939 -
040940 -            h: 00 48
040942 -  ..
040943 - The program gives a $ prompt.
040944 -
040945 -        $ mem command shows 632K of memory.
040947 -  ..
040948 - No other standard DOS commands seem to work.
040949 -
040950 -    For example, cannot change the directory.
040951 -
040953 -  ..
040954 - Online Help yielded a command...
040955 -
040956 -        $ cygcheck
040957 -
040958 - ...with a bunch of options.
040960 -  ..
040961 - Examined various directories, and found commands in....
040962 -
040963 -        h: 00 48 bin
040965 -  ..
040966 - Copied e.exe into the ...bin dir, and found that e.exe executes and
040967 - seems to run normally for Medit.
040969 -  ..
040970 - Copied the SDS program call into the ...bin dir, and found that SDS
040971 - seems to run normally.  All of the DOS commands execute with Morris'
040972 - dose command, even though none of the commands execute at the cygwin
040973 - prompt, per above. ref SDS 0 E69K
040975 -  ..
040976 - There is a command...
040977 -
040978 -        h: 00 48 bin find.exe
040980 -  ..
040981 - This may be the program Morris mentioned this morning. ref SDS 0 HT5I
040983 -  ..
040984 - Research on the Internet indicated that a command...
040985 -
040986 -        help find
040987 -
040988 - ...might provide syntax.
040990 -  ..
040991 - Tried this and got a message to run...
040992 -
040993 -    $ info find
040995 -  ..
040996 - This produced a listing with possibly something helpful.
040997 -
040998 -    The syntax appears to work with grep somehow for searching
040999 -    subdirectories.
041000 -
041001 -    Syntax seems very complex, per examples...
041002 -
041003 -        /usr/b n/find "." \( ! -name \*.pch -a ! -path \*CVS\* \) | jar cvf@ ..\\archive.zip
041005 -         ..
041006 -        usr/bin/find . -type f -a ! -name \*.pch -a ! -path \*CVS\* | /usr/local/bin/jar cvf@ ../archive.jar
041007 -
041008 -        /usr/bin/find . -type f -a ! -name \*.pch -a ! -path \*CVS\* -print0 | xargs -r0 tar cjvf ../archive.tar.bz2
041009 -
041010 -
041012 -  ..
041013 - Instructions:
041014 -
041015 -      $ man grep   [Enter]
041017 -  ..
041018 - This gives instructions.  Enter is one line at at time, and Space bar
041019 - is a page at at time.
041020 -
041021 -      $ grep morris filename
041023 -  ..
041024 - The -i switch is case sentitive, and -r looks at subdirectories
041025 -
041026 -      $ grep -i -r morris d:/sd/08/00101/02/05
041028 -  ..
041029 - Searching for a string requires delimiters...
041030 -
041031 -      $ grep -i -r 'talk is cheap' d:/sd/08/00101/02 > c:/sd/10/x
041032 -
041034 -  ..
041035 - This seems to work well.
041036 -
041037 -     [On 050516 new Microsoft search techology released, seems to have
041038 -     defects similar to search function in Windows XP. ref SDS 3 606J
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