On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 4:16 PM Don Brown <DBrown@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have installed CygWin on my home laptop and intend to learn some new
tricks.
There are many plugins that can be installed and a learning curve for each.
Do you have a list of suggested items to install and any cheat sheets for
the basics to get started ?
Don. they're not "plugins" so much as just "command line programs". Cygwin
emulates a GNU environment much like Linux on your PC.
You might learn the editor vim, it's on PASE via yum if you want it, too.
mc the Midnight Commander the two-panel file browser is very cool. Google
the manual, or press F1 in mc to walk through text-mode nested help panels.
Make sure ssh of course is there so you can ssh into PASE and sftp share
file directories via mc which depends on ssh for that.
It's just a world of Linux stuff. The man pages for Linux commands pretty
much apply to the stuff you'll find in Cygwin options.
Perl is there. Python is there. Emacs is there. gcc is there.
There's an X Windowing System server there ... gui applications running on
PASE can have their display on your desktop! Of course, remote >and<
running on PASE that tends to be v-e-r-y slow :)
The nice thing about installing X and starting the Server (X is backwards -
"server" means "the display server for programs that want display
services") is that xterm the standard terminal in Linux is very usable with
PASE.
The list is very long.
I should do a series of short videos about *nix-ing into IBM i. I'm looking
at that doing that, right now trying to learn Blender the Linux video
editor :)
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