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On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 7:18 AM Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Unless you are Linux savvy (which clearly Jack is) CygWin will just
complicate life if all you do is want to move files around.
True enough, but I would expand on this savvy comment by the most esteemed
Jim Oberholtzer as follows:
.IF. one's goals are:
1. Surmount present crisis
2. Ongoing integrate one's operation more tightly with the open source
PASE/IFS-oriented future of IBM i
3. While remaining on the Dreaded Windows Platform :)
.THEN.
Cygwin install + maintenance is a short-term (1 day?) learning curve with a
marked long-term payoff.
Learning *how to use* the cornucopia of Unix-on-Windows resources which
Cygwin pours into your lap *gratis* is a long-term career move like
learning OS/400.
.GRATUITOUS FURTHER and inevitably controversial ADVICE. Linux
interoperates marvellously with IBM i, it's the best platform there is for
an IBM i administrator's/programmer's workstation. Ditto if you're on IBM
z. Windows, for all its sculpted scroll bars, isn't in it. If you're not
using Linux (me liketh Ubuntu) as your workstation you're creating puzzles
and pain for yourself ongoing.
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