[Tfug] cygwin

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On Fri, 2002-07-26 at 21:34, Nicolas Lopez wrote:
> 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

This is a better solution ... use native Python, and the native
Ghostscript you can get it from SourceForge.

Man been working on pure Linux solutions to problems for so long I
forgot that many things we're available in the Windows world for free
too!

Ray