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Date:	Fri, 20 Feb 2004 19:01:26 -0500
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On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 06:55:19PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>Actually, the main goal of Cygwin is to annoy users and to give a vent to
>the innate meanness of its developers.
>
>The secondary goal of Cygwin is to provide POSIX compatibility.  The Unix
>tools are incidental. :-)

Thank you for making this clarification.  I was getting ready to type
this in and now I don't have to!

I guess a clarifying web page update is called for.  I won't update it,
though, because, well, you know...

cgf

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