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I tried it on a virgin cygwin that had never had subversion installed.
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The tricky part was to trick the install into going not into the main cygwin directories but into one that I could tar up to become my package.
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Go tutorial on calling cygwin bash scripts from powershell?
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Um, you can do anything to a Windows machine remotely from * NIX if you just install cygwin on the Windows box.
Shut Down Your Windows PC Remotely From Linux | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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Select the sshd package, then go into the cygwin shell and run: ssh-host-config
Shut Down Your Windows PC Remotely From Linux | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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I needed to restore a few cygwin DLL files that got wiped the other day and I was able to restore all of them in about 30 seconds.
Win 7 Vs Mac OS X Leopard: Feature-by-Feature Showdown | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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What's great about it is that you can use it in the workplace even if there is no-install policy, since cygwin is not required.
FAST Is A Geeky Command-Line Database | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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This program is effectively a GCode editor for XWindows, which means Linux, OSX, and for Windows, cygwin-x11.
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Use cygwin of mingw to get this done in Windows. rawfan rawfan
NasBackup Makes Incremental Backups Easy | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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I fall back on cygwin for directory navigation, for example, so Emerge suits my tastes better.
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