Cygwin

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  1. micsom

    micsom New Member

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    a friend told me Cygwin is a linux emulator tht works on windows platform..so i downloaded it and tried out few commands but i found few commands like vi,clear, ...are not working

    m i missing something here...or does Cygwin come with few diff commands set
     
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    xpi0t0s Mentor

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    Calling cygwin a Linux emulator is going a bit far; it provides a Unix-type environment that can run within Windows. If you want more Unixy commands in Windows lookup GnuWin32.
     

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