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From:	"Matthew Smith" <matts AT bluesguitar DOT org>
To:	"Cygwin" <cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: ksh93? -- also u/win question
Date:	Wed, 7 Feb 2001 23:24:49 -0600
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> The main thing of interest is that Global Technologies, Ltd, the
commercial
> liscensing outfit that sells supported commercial versions of U/WIN, has
> successfully ported GNOME to it.  They claim it took under two weeks to
port
> 4 million lines of code, and less than one hundred lines of source changes
> were required.

Check out:
http://slashdot.org/articles/00/12/09/0341259.shtml

Sounds like they had to spend 3 months of time tweaking the posix.dll in
Uwin to get things working correctly.

cheers,
-Matt


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