From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Robert Thorpe" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Does grep work in Windows Date: 25 Jan 2007 04:55:19 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1169729719.701335.71210@m58g2000cwm.googlegroups.com> References: <45b67f7f$0$30318$9b4e6d93@newsspool1.arcor-online.net> <2c75873c0701231427n49241f5dndb257f08f58de94@mail.gmail.com> <1169639985.030843.317600@k78g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1169648727.079602.174910@k78g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1169671913.353114.223220@v33g2000cwv.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1169732441 22801 80.91.229.12 (25 Jan 2007 13:40:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 13:40:41 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 25 14:40:35 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HA4q7-0006Er-Pz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Jan 2007 14:40:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HA4q7-0004EZ-7D for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Jan 2007 08:40:31 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!m58g2000cwm.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 21 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.94.228.213 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1169729733 19462 127.0.0.1 (25 Jan 2007 12:55:33 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 12:55:33 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) X-HTTP-Via: 1.0 EMF3ASPROXY03 Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: m58g2000cwm.googlegroups.com; posting-host=213.94.228.213; posting-account=hWoAPxMAAAAnBKSBz1ZivwUPPjEuve7bvVCHZQ8rhrluPfwcBJd92w Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:145033 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:40636 Archived-At: On Jan 25, 8:50 am, "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" wrote: > Eli Zaretskii wrote: > >> From: "HS" > >> Date: 24 Jan 2007 12:51:53 -0800 > > >> Just drop those on your c:\windows and never worry about that again... > >> :) > >>http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ > > > First, unxutils is a collection of very old versions of GNU software. > > It also seems to not be maintained anymore. > > > And second, the directory you suggested does not need to exist on a > > Windows system, it can have other names.Third, is it really a good idea to place other binaries in this special > directory that is suppose to contain only the OS binaries? It certainly isn't. And putting "find" their will probably interfer with MS "find" as C:\Windows occurs earlier in PATH than MS find does. This may break some batch files.