From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andy Parkins Subject: Re: MinGW port - initial work uploaded Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 15:06:31 +0000 Message-ID: <200701231506.32396.andyparkins@gmail.com> References: <200701192148.20206.johannes.sixt@telecom.at> <200701231322.32987.andyparkins@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Johannes Schindelin X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Jan 23 16:06:54 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1H9NEX-0006sH-KH for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 23 Jan 2007 16:06:49 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751980AbXAWPGk (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Jan 2007 10:06:40 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751955AbXAWPGk (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Jan 2007 10:06:40 -0500 Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.184.224]:43053 "EHLO wr-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751980AbXAWPGj (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Jan 2007 10:06:39 -0500 Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id 68so1061228wra for ; Tue, 23 Jan 2007 07:06:38 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=O6Sks9+k77ebn1b/fAOJt8vGKOtq947DvGmpuGZ8lJLhljGyx+FVnu66VfO6lbSf1etVl3Ap/pNE3zJGfaWMvPnYUAJzPyeQElAcas8XLaAgsB4yCanWnbj1I/nb+QfjEi0OObvWOSv6x85MifzRS693vEQLIgVOnq1P0iJ5aF8= Received: by 10.49.20.5 with SMTP id x5mr1228283nfi.1169564795997; Tue, 23 Jan 2007 07:06:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from davejones ( [194.70.53.227]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id k23sm2844290nfc.2007.01.23.07.06.34; Tue, 23 Jan 2007 07:06:35 -0800 (PST) To: git@vger.kernel.org User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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 -- Dr Andy Parkins, M Eng (hons), MIEE andyparkins@gmail.com