Re: Ediff error -- Permission denied (Win8)

[Yeşim Erke-Magent]

On Friday, August 2, 2013 12:44:24 AM UTC-4, Rustom Mody wrote:
> On Friday, August 2, 2013 5:09:16 AM UTC+5:30, Stefan Monnier wrote:
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> > > I wish I had Unix running on my machine!
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> > Do you need help with that?
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> Since this seems to be such a FAQ, attempting to say something.  Hopefully 
> more windows-aware folks will amend.
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> Many people using windows find need for unix-ish facilities/features/feel.
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> Setting up native windows emacs is a first (but not last!) step.
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> cygwin is considered a full-featured but somewhat heavyweight answer to this 
> need
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> mingw is a somewhat lighter solution.
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> Some comparison here 
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/771756/what-is-the-difference-between-cygwin-and-mingw
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> You can also set up diff/grep etc alone.
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> [I believe Eli has posted the link a few days back...]
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> Other solutions:
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> Win+Linux side-by-side: Make your system multibootable with grub.
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> This is an old solution. In my most recent bundled-with-win-8 laptop, copying 
> files from ubuntu and windows is not working as it used to.  Seems to be a 
> uefi/gpt problem.
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> Windows-inside-linux: wubi can be installed as a normal windows program 
> inside windows and was quite popular but again seems to be suffering gpt/uefi 
> related problems.
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> Linux-in-VM-in-windows: I know some friends who swear by VMware. No 
> experience myself.
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> Wine: windows emulator inside linux. Will run many (not all!) windows 
> programs on a vanilla gnu/linux

I installed cygwin after receiving a reply to my question.  I added it to the 
Environment Variable, PATH (please see my previous comment) but cannot still 
make it work.  I guess the major problem is I can hardly remember Unix commands 
as well as Emacs as it has been over a decade I used them.