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
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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....
mark
* 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.
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