Thank you for the response. I am not wedded to cygwin, and am always 
interesting in new options and improvements. I appreciate the links and 
will look into them.

Alden

Gerhard Fiedler wrote:
> Alden Hart wrote:
>
>   
>> Wouter,
>>
>> Please pardon my mangled syntax. What I meant to say was that cygwin 
>> (bash) supports find, touch and other standard UNIX commands that have 
>> no DOS equivalent. 
>>     
>
> I'm not sure what you mean with "DOS" and "no DOS equivalent".
>
> If you mean "MS-DOS", that's heavily outdated and you probably should look
> at other alternatives.
>
> If you mean "Win2k/XP command line", then have a look at the available
> Win2k/XP command line tools some time. You might be surprised. (Note that
> the Win2k/XP command line does not have much to do with the MS-DOS command
> line. If you're only using the commands that were available under MS-DOS,
> you're limiting yourself without good reason.)
>
> <http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/ntcmds.mspx?mfr=true>
> Or <http://tinyurl.com/elaet>
>
> That's just the Microsoft stuff. There are tons of other tools (many of
> them free) available. Many of the Unix tools have been ported, see e.g.
> <http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/> or <http://www.mingw.org/>. 
>
> OTOH, this may not be of much importance to you, since it probably won't
> convince you to move away from Cygwin bash. (No need either if you like
> it.) But there's more stuff available than most people think. Ever done a
> "dir c:\windows\system32\*.exe /w"? There are a few GUI apps, but most are
> CLI tools.
>
> Gerhard
>
>   

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