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From: fjh AT cs DOT mu DOT OZ DOT AU (Fergus Henderson)
Subject: Re: Feedback needed on proposed cygwin feature
2 Dec 1997 13:47:34 -0800 :
Message-ID: <199712021741.EAA13772.cygnus.gnu-win32@mundook.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
References: <EKHt00 DOT DM8 AT bbc DOT com>
To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

cgf AT bbc DOT com (Chris Faylor) writes:

>Btw, since I don't seem to have made myself sufficiently clear, I was
>not talking about removing environment variable support.  I was talking
>about changing CYGWIN_* environment variables to CYGWIN32=*.

I don't see any good reason to hard-code the `32'.

Using `CYGWIN32' won't look very good on say the 64-bit NT Alpha port.

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