Les Mikesell wrote:
On 8/3/2011 11:48 AM, Warren Young wrote:
On 8/3/2011 10:11 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
Rsync barely works well on Windows
So what does???
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One is that the source is highly unportable. It heavily uses forks and pipes and such which have no direct equivalent under Windows. All of that would have to be abstracted away as they've done in the first-quality ports mentioned above.
Yes, I've been surprised that no one has done a native port. Hmmm, I
<snip> Here's a question: back around '96 or '97, M$ announced that they'd made NT POSIX compatible, including a Korn shell*. Is that anywhere inside Windows, still? If so, I'd think it would allow a lot....
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* Amusing related true story: M$ honcho at a convention, and giving a long spiel about their new Korn shell. An older man got up in the rear of the hall, and responded that it wasn't really a full implementation. The M$ honcho started to argue with him... until someone else got up, and pointed out that the honcho was arguing with Dr. Korn.
M$ honcho had the grace to look embarrassed.