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Re:Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils by Someone1234 on Tuesday March 22, 2016 @01:18PM (#11338125)
Firstly I was talking about API support. Since that is the topic at hand.

Secondly, Cmd is deprecated. Powershell supports both slashes and "type c:/home/foo.txt" works perfectly.

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Re:Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils by ktRolster on Tuesday March 22, 2016 @02:33PM (#11338777)
But Powershell redirects < and > either don't work or can corrupt your files
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Re:Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils by Someone1234 on Tuesday March 22, 2016 @03:14PM (#11339177)
You might find this useful:

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh847746.aspx

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Re:Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils by ktRolster on Tuesday March 22, 2016 @09:27PM (#11341420)
A) That's only one direction, the other way doesn't work

B) Even going that direction, at times it corrupts the data

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