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From: pete AT horus DOT cix DOT co DOT uk (Pete Jordan)
Subject: Re: Yet another GNU-Win32 website...
14 Aug 1998 04:24:08 -0700 :
Message-ID: <memo.19980813222908.2213b.cygnus.gnu-win32@horus.horus.cix.co.uk>
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To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

David Fox <fox AT cat DOT nyu DOT edu> wrote:

> There seem to be two types of GNU-win32 users.  Those who are trying
> to make a Windows system more Unixy, and those who are trying to make
> Unix software work under Windows.  For the latter, the closer the
> file system stays to the windows standard the better, so that its
> easier to distribute the completed port to regular windows users.

Hmmm. I fall so strongly in the first category that the second never even 
occurred to me... :)

Pete Jordan ~ Horus Communications Ltd ~ http://www.horus.cix.co.uk/

"Eclectic outrage is our rule:
 To strain at gnats that soil and sin us,
 And pass huge camels to the stool.
 And /still/ there are great camels in us."

     Song of the Golden Shovel
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