Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: darcs vs tla

[Erik de Castro Lopo]

On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 09:31:02 +1100
Zenaan Harkness <address@hidden> wrote:

> What are the actual _improvements_ over say, cygwin's bash?
> 
> Eg:
> $ cp /cygdrive/c/Windows/blah .

Yes, that woks fine, but "/cygdrive" is 9 more letters :-).

> and install cygwin-xfree86 + xterm, and you've got a real resizable
> xterm with bash too...

The Msys rxvt is native so it doesn't need an Xserver running.

Erik
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