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From:	Vince Hoffman <Vince DOT Hoffman AT uk DOT circle DOT com>
To:	"'Gunnar DOT Ritter AT pluto DOT uni-freiburg DOT de'"
	<Gunnar DOT Ritter AT pluto DOT uni-freiburg DOT de>,
	"'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'"
	<cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject:	RE: Using nail on win32 (cygwin)
Date:	Fri, 17 Jan 2003 16:21:05 -0000
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While i can understand your views, i'm sorry that you feel that way. thanks
for the responce.

Vince

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gunnar Ritter [mailto:g-r AT bigfoot DOT de]
> Sent: 17 January 2003 16:16
> To: Vince DOT Hoffman AT uk DOT circle DOT com
> Subject: Re: Using nail on win32 (cygwin)
> 
> 
> Vince Hoffman <Vince DOT Hoffman AT uk DOT circle DOT com> wrote:
> 
> > however I also use it on a couple of win32 systems running 
> under Cygwin (a
> > posix compatibility layer for win32) as there is no bsd 
> mail on cygwin ,
> > however its tricky to compile on win32 as the name aux is 
> reserved (just
> > creating a text file aux.c is not allowed) so it involves 
> unpacking it on a
> > *nix box and renaming aux.c to something like aux1.c and 
> doing a quick
> > search and replace on references to aux.x and aux.o.
> 
> This is just laughable and another good reason not to use this
> 'platform'.
> 
> > Would it be possible to
> > change the name of aux.c and aux.o to something more win32 
> friendly ?
> 
> No, I generally don't resolve Windows compatibility issues. See
> <http://www.fefe.de/nowindows/> for a good explanation why free
> software developers should not do this.
> 
> I'm sorry for the inconvenience this might cause for you as an
> individual, but the social issue is more important for me in such
> cases and besides, if you have a problem with inconveniences, I'd
> advise you not to use Microsoft products at all.
> 
> 	Gunnar
> 

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