Warp wrote:
>   "How do I do that?" Right, he was in Windows, and there's no diff in
> Windows. We pondered for a moment what would be the easiest solution.

Download diff for Windows? :-)

http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=diff+win32

> He was using notepad++ as his text editor and we wondered if there would
> be some way of comparing two files in it. With the million of menus in the
> program, it was probably not worth the trouble.

It works with vim, tho. :-)

>   Sometimes things just *are* way easier in unix. Sure, there are tools
> for Windows to do the same thing, but the problem is that Windows never
> has *any* tools by default, and it would always require quite a lot of
> work to get the tools. In unix the tools just are there, period. No need
> to think nor hassle around.

No more hassle than starting up yast to download them, methinks. 
Occasionally you'll have to figure out if it's a "real" port or a cygwin 
port, but i've found the "win32" modifier almost always points you at a 
native port without a bunch of dependencies.

But sure, unix has more command-line tools for Windows by default. :-) 
Windows isn't primarily targeted at developers, so developers have to 
install some tools they need.

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   There's no CD like OCD, there's no CD I knoooow!

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