[Tfug] cygwin

Nicolas Lopez tfug@tfug.org
Fri Jul 26 21:35:02 2002


On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 11:54:51AM -0700, 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?
  ghostscript has allready been ported to Windows allready. That's a bigest
part. For scriptability you might want cygwin's bash, or tcsh, or whatever
anyway, but the postscript won't be a problem.

  - Nick Lopez
    kimo_sabe@atdot.org
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