RE: IFS object attributes

["Mark Phippard" <MarkP@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't grep just one of the GNU utilities, and
therefore just as much of an "add-on" for Unix as it is for Windows?

Also, I am not aware of the Unix vendors providing official support for
many of these utilities either, not sure about grep specifically.  All I
know is that when I have looked into a few AIX utilities to see if they
would run on PASE, I noticed that many of them are distributed under a
section of AIX that is marked as not officially supported by IBM.

My point being simply that Windows is not necessarily that different from
Unix in this regard.

Finally, MS offers their Services For Unix which they do support, and I
believe is now free.  I know it comes with a lot of utilities, not sure
about grep.  I am pretty certain that Cygwin includes it.

Mark



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> From: Walden H. Leverich III
>
> >not to mention the fact that Windows has no "grep" command either
>
> Mine does. Just download one of the implementations of the GNU
utilities.
> http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ is a good place to start.

Tsk, tsk, tsk.  Now you're cheating, Walden.  You can get all sorts of
add-ons for any operating system.  And once you go there, you might just
as well roll your own, which on OS/400 is quite simple.

No, I'm talking about base Windows, which for some inconceivable reason
is missing some of the basic utilities of Unix - utilities that have
been around for what?  Thirty, forty YEARS?  Sure, you can get
shareware, but who ya gonna call when the shareware blows up?

Then again, that begs the question: who do you call when Windows blows
up?  But I digress.

;)

Joe

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