[Tfug] cygwin

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Fri Jul 26 12:20:02 2002


Yes, and it works.

If you can part with a small amount of money I highly recommend getting
VirtualPC ( Cheaper ) or VMWare, and running a Linux VM in it.

Ray

On Fri, 2002-07-26 at 11:54, Jim Secan wrote:
> Is anyone out there familiar with cygwin?  I want to be able to run some
> *nix apps on a Win2000 box (can't change the OS, drat-the-luck) in a
> scheduled batch mode converting PostScript images to web-friendly format
> (jpeg or png).  I've been told that cygwin is a good way to accomplish
> this.  Anyone ever tried this?
> 
> TIA
> Jim
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