Re: O.T. FTP upload

On Sat, 5 Nov 2011 19:44:55 +0000 (UTC), Martin Gregorie
<martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted
someone who said :

Because Roedy, IIRC, used Windows and has little *nix experience. Viewed
in the context of a Windows power user with little *nix experience, all
the stuff you or I would regard as essentials, namely a *nix shell (does
Cygwin include sh, ash, ksh or all three) and the Core Utils, can fairly
be described as cruft.

I am almost there. I am gradually documenting how to make this work
step-by-step for newbies. I have created an MkIsoFS image so far.
I am wading through the 54 pages of options on cdRecord.

See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/cygwin.html
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/cdburning.html
http://mindprod.com/application/backuptozip.manual.html

if you want to kibitz

It all makes much more sense than the last time I fiddled with Cygwin.

The nice thing about this is when I am done I will have a Linux and
Mac solution too.


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Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products
http://mindprod.com
Capitalism has spurred the competition that makes CPUs faster and
faster each year, but the focus on money makes software manufacturers
do some peculiar things like deliberately leaving bugs and deficiencies
in the software so they can soak the customers for upgrades later.
Whether software is easy to use, or never loses data, when the company
has a near monopoly, is almost irrelevant to profits, and therefore
ignored. The manufacturer focuses on cheap gimicks like dancing paper
clips to dazzle naive first-time buyers. The needs of existing
experienced users are almost irrelevant. I see software rental as the
best remedy.

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