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From: "Hughes, Bill" <Bill DOT Hughes AT cox DOT co DOT uk>
To: "'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: Is there a 'ping' in Cygwin?
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 10:09:59 +0100
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Sent: 18 October 2003 13:57 From: Thorsten Kampe
> > I shall now fix my path and create symlinks so 'ping' works.
> 
> There's no sense in creating symlinks if you fix the PATH.
> 
> Thorsten

Without the symlink I have to use 'PING.EXE', with it I can use 'ping'.
Cygwin has two main benefits for me - it makes windows usable (mainly for
work) and it helps me migrate to linux at home. Hence I would prefer to be
as unix/linux like as possible - so I use "check_case:strict".

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