From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Does grep work in Windows Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 09:50:23 +0100 Message-ID: <45B86F4F.7050401@gmail.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; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1169715048 26879 80.91.229.12 (25 Jan 2007 08:50:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 08:50:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 25 09:50:46 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 1HA0Jh-00051q-QA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Jan 2007 09:50:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HA0Jh-0006j2-CS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Jan 2007 03:50:45 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HA0JR-0006ix-E4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Jan 2007 03:50:29 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HA0JP-0006il-UA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Jan 2007 03:50:29 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HA0JP-0006ii-RA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Jan 2007 03:50:27 -0500 Original-Received: from ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.212]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1HA0JO-0002rK-J4; Thu, 25 Jan 2007 03:50:26 -0500 Original-Received: from c83-254-145-24.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.145.24]:63253 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HA0JM-00080A-63; Thu, 25 Jan 2007 09:50:25 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.9) Gecko/20061207 Thunderbird/1.5.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.4.666 In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 000706-1, 2007-01-24), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1HA0JM-00080A-63. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1HA0JM-00080A-63 ce78916ecfafb5589ef86eb86c760f91 X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) 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:40632 Archived-At: 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?