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Date:	Wed, 16 Jul 2003 10:13:03 +1000 (EST)
From:	luke DOT kendall AT cisra DOT canon DOT com DOT au
Subject:	Binaries via Line or by rebuilding?
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On 25 Mar, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
Re: cant run binaries in cygwin
>  Unless you mean "there's no binary but the Linux binary", in which case 
>  Cygwin will probably not be of much use to you, but you might be 
>  interested in something like Line (<http://line.sourceforge.net/>). 

It looks like development of Line stopped in 2001, at an alpha version.

Was that because it's more normal for people to simply port a program by
building from source under Cygwin?

luke


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