[darcs-users] Re: cygwin SSH

Juliusz Chroboczek jch at pps.jussieu.fr
Wed Jan 19 20:41:50 UTC 2005


> Putty with pagent is very inconvenient. What would you recommend to
> use with darcs?

I've got no idea -- I haven't used Windows in years.

All I know is that for all practical purposes, Windows and Cygwin
should be considered as two distinct operating systems that happen to
run simultaneously on a single machine.  You cannot expect Windows
processes to interoperate reliably with Cygwin processes any more than
you can expect, say, Windows processes to interoperate reliably with
MS-DOS processes.

You either need to find a native Windows binary of ssh, or a Cygwin
binary of Darcs.  A heterogeneous combination is asking for trouble.

                                        Juliusz








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