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Special Forums Windows & DOS: Issues & Discussions Did Apache bend my Cygwin? Or was it SSH? Post 302319193 by SilversleevesX on Sunday 24th of May 2009 03:11:31 PM

05-24-2009

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Took your advice without even reading it, and then some.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Neo

I don't think it is uncommon for conflicts on Windows software installations, especially when you are installing emulators for other operating systems.

Simply fix them and move on .... Smilie

BTW, I would never run an emulator like Cygwin on Windows. It is too easy to build a linux box and run the real thing !

I did one better. I trashed Cygwin and am keeping my Kubuntu Wubi install.
The one thing that's keeping me from ousting Windows XP from this box is that, having used iView Media Pro (and now M$ Expression Media) for many years, and having gotten used to all its nice little annotation-field auto-completes etc. (great for the lazy typist like YT), the lack of a directly analogous application (call it a "clone" if you want) in any of the Linuxes I'm familiar with, keeps me from doing so.

And to my mind running Wine for the sake of one application seems more than a bit trifling and wasteful of hard-disk space and resources. Call me crazy, but since even my router configuration page is Firefox-friendly (where it used to be strictly IE-friendly), I don't see much need to put a "whole other Windows" on, even in emulation, for just one proprietary app.

I've found reasonably good, and in many cases better, analogues for many of the other apps I've got installed here in Windows. And having been a Mac OS X home user (5 years, which means 2 boxes and 3 versions), I'm just more comfortable in a Linux, especially when it comes to the command line (I've coined the term "jackwhack" to describe the Windows path-delineation slash). You could argue that keeping Windows for "the sake of one app" is just as weak an argument, and you'd be right. Sometimes those of us humans who came up using proprietary OSes -- before OS X rolled out I'd used those versions which Apple calls "OS 9" and many of us users refer to as "classic Mac" or, more appropriately, "legacy MacOS" -- with iffy, shifty, heavily-patched api foundations etc, can't quite "cut the cord" altogether.

Heck, if there was something in Linux closer to Portfolio or Canto Cumulus, I'd give some serious thought to switching over, full-stop.

Thank you for the help.

BZT

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File::HomeDir::Windows(3)				User Contributed Perl Documentation				 File::HomeDir::Windows(3)

NAME

       File::HomeDir::Windows - Find your home and other directories on Windows

SYNOPSIS

	 use File::HomeDir;

	 # Find directories for the current user (eg. using Windows XP Professional)
	 $home	  = File::HomeDir->my_home;	   # C:Documents and Settingsmylogin
	 $desktop = File::HomeDir->my_desktop;	   # C:Documents and SettingsmyloginDesktop
	 $docs	  = File::HomeDir->my_documents;   # C:Documents and SettingsmyloginMy Documents
	 $music   = File::HomeDir->my_music;	   # C:Documents and SettingsmyloginMy DocumentsMy Music
	 $pics	  = File::HomeDir->my_pictures;    # C:Documents and SettingsmyloginMy DocumentsMy Pictures
	 $videos  = File::HomeDir->my_videos;	   # C:Documents and SettingsmyloginMy DocumentsMy Video
	 $data	  = File::HomeDir->my_data;	   # C:Documents and SettingsmyloginLocal SettingsApplication Data

DESCRIPTION

       This module provides Windows-specific implementations for determining common user directories.  In normal usage this module will always be
       used via File::HomeDir.

       Internally this module will use Win32::GetFolderPath to fetch the location of your directories. As a result of this, in certain unusual
       situations (usually found inside large organisations) the methods may return UNC paths such as "\cifs.localhome$".

       If your application runs on Windows and you want to have it work comprehensively everywhere, you may need to implement your own handling
       for these paths as they can cause strange behaviour.

       For example, stat calls to UNC paths may work but block for several seconds, but opendir() may not be able to read any files (creating the
       appearance of an existing but empty directory).

       To avoid complicating the problem any further, in the rare situation that a UNC path is returned by "GetFolderPath" the usual -d validation
       checks will not be done.

SUPPORT

       See the support section the main File::HomeDir module.

AUTHORS

       Adam Kennedy <adamk@cpan.org>

       Sean M. Burke <sburke@cpan.org>

SEE ALSO

       File::HomeDir, File::HomeDir::Win32 (legacy)

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright 2005 - 2011 Adam Kennedy.

       Some parts copyright 2000 Sean M. Burke.

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

       The full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file included with this module.

perl v5.16.3							    2012-10-19						 File::HomeDir::Windows(3)