Instead of "sort of linux" with Cygwin, why not just run linux in the Windows Linux Subsystem?
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/about
You can install Ubuntu, openSUSE, Debian, Kali, or SUSE Server. Right on your Windows machine. No dual boots or VMs.
I recommend at least giving it a look.
Brian
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From: MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Jack Woehr
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2018 8:35 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Alternative to WINSCP
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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