Although I have to have Cygwin on some systems at work, I haven't installed Cygwin on my personal systems and haven't done much with Cygwin's Perl.

So, on your personal systems, do you use that terminal program that comes with Windows? No bash? And where do you get the common command-line tools (ls, cp, mv, man, etc.)?

Sorry to pepper you with questions. I just don't see how it could possibly work to not have a regular shell within which to work (together with the usual GNU tools available).

In reply to Re^2: Newb guidance for Perl on MS Windows: Cygwin, Strawberry, ActivePerl? by Anonymous Monk
in thread Newb guidance for Perl on MS Windows: Cygwin, Strawberry, ActivePerl? by Anonymous Monk

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