Monad

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Monad being the name of the (still beta) new command shell microsoft is developing. Just thought I'd post a few thoughts on it.
Several standard shell commands appear to be present (ls, piping, "more", etc) which could see it starting to come into line with a more Unix approach. There's even support for "/" with reference to the top level of the current drive, though due to \ being used as a directory delimter in names, specifying a full path name is still a little different.
e.g:
cd '/Program Files' is used, not /Program\ Files
there's finally some tab completion of file names, repeated tabs cycle through anything that matches instead of listing everything. Tab doesn't complete executables in the bin PATH though.
Uses .net to run the command line, or so it seems, so maybe some nice eye-candy shells could be created for it too (a la Eterm).
Only been looking at it briefly, but still, seems microsoft is trying to make windows more unix-like in much of its functionality. Now if they could only use Unix sockets, I'd be set (though I like Linux more than windows, I still prefer any code I write to run across any platform).

[Whistler]

Cygwin

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Yep, I currently use cygwin, but there are some instances where it's unsuitable (mainly with the -mno-cygwin function, including certain header files really runs into problems, unless -DWIN32 is not present, but some libraries need that, etc etc etc). I know why it occurs, but there are some things I can't get running under cygwin.
Plus, last time I checked anyway, there's no 64bit support for cygwin or mingw.

[Pierre-Marie Baty]

Nice move from Microsoft, that was expected for a long time

[Rick]

I hope they won't patent stuff like "'/' refers to the root filesystem"