F*EX use case: using UNIX fextools with Windows

With Cygwin you can use the UNIX fextools with Windows, too!
They are much more powerful than the Windows Fextasy.

Just download and run the cygwin-portable-installer

Afterwards you should enter: 

fex install
fex help
That's it!

Alternativly you can install Cygwin manually:
You have to install the Cygwin base and the packages

Then you have to install the fex tools.
Start the Cygwin terminal program and enter: 

wget https://fex.belwue.de/download/fex.pl
perl fex.pl
fex install

Using fexsend with copy&paste

  1. Open a Cygwin Terminal by double-clicking its icon.
    This means: move the mouse pointer over the Cygwin icon on your desktop and click the left mouse button twice, fast.
  2. Enter "fexsend " (without the quotes, but mind the trailing space!)
  3. Mark the file you wish to send by positioning the mouse pointer over it.
    You might also click the filename with the left mouse button.
  4. Press and hold the SHIFT key. Hold means: keep the SHIFT key pressed down and do not release it.
  5. Click and hold the right mouse button, this opens the context menu for the selected file.
  6. Navigate the mouse pointer to the entry "Copy as path".
  7. Release the right mouse button.
  8. Click it once with the left mouse button. Now the file name is in the clipboard.
  9. Release the SHIFT key.
  10. Move the mouse pointer to the Cygwin window and click with the right mouse button somewhere in the window, this opens another context menu.
  11. Choose "Paste". You will see the name of your selected file.
  12. Release the right mouse button.
  13. Enter " " (the SPACE key)
  14. Enter your recipient's email address.
  15. Enter ENTER or RETURN.
    fexsend will upload your selected file to the fexserver.

Using fexsend with drag&drop

  1. Open a Cygwin Terminal by double-clicking its icon.
    This means: move the mouse pointer over the Cygwin icon on your desktop and click the left mouse button twice, fast.
  2. Enter "fexsend " (without the quotes, but mind the trailing space!)
  3. Open the Windows explorer by entering the WINDOWS and R key together, in the following popup type "Explorer" (without the quotes!) and ENTER.
  4. Make sure that you see the Cygwin and the Explorer window at least partially.
  5. Navigate within the explorer to the folder where the file is contained.
  6. In the explorer window click on the filename with the left mouse button and hold the mouse pressed.
  7. Move the mouse pointer to the Cygwin window.
  8. Release the left mouse button. You will see the name of your selected file.
  9. Enter " " (the SPACE key)
  10. Enter your recipient's email address.
  11. Enter ENTER or RETURN.
    fexsend will upload your selected file to the fexserver.