Mail Archives: cygwin/2001/03/02/12:14:16
Here is more unqualified praise:
I love it! It is very impressive. Keep up the good work! Someday I want to
contribute.
Siegfried
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From: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com
[mailto:cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com]On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor
Sent: Friday, March 02, 2001 9:21 AM
To: Andersen, Jan Bruun
Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Whow! What a beatiful experience!!
You're welcome.
Thank you for the unqualified praise. It's nice to see this amongst the
usual:
"I love Cygwin. It's really great. If only it..."
cgf
On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 03:12:49PM -0000, Andersen, Jan Bruun wrote:
>Hi everyone,
>
>A BIG Thank You to everyone who has been involved in the creation of the
>CygWin software.
>
>For a project, I wanted to create some small utilities to convert incoming
>data file, but I only have this Win2K laptop :( As an old UNIX programmer,
I
>didn't feel like having to learn a Windows IDE, so I was planning to
>repartitioning my NTFS disk to make room for a Linux distribution.
>
>But last night, I started to think "Maybe I can just install a Windows port
>of gcc, lex and yacc instead?". This morning, I searched for
>gcc+windows+binaries - and viola! CygWin came up.
>
>10 minutes later, thanks to that beautiful litte program called setup.exe,
I
>had en environment that looked just as I remembered UNIX :-)
>
>THANKS!!!
>
>--
>Jan Bruun Andersen
>Information Specialist, B.Sc.
>Solution Centre Denmark
>
>EDS Sverige AB, Solna Strandväg 96, SE-171 85 Solna, Sweden
>(http://www.eds.se/)
>"A More Productive Way of Working."
>
>
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