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Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 21:52:24 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
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On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 11:11:04PM +0200, Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote:
>> From: Brian Kelly
>> Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 6:58 PM
>
>>>>I'd like to use on other machines as well - without Cygwin.  Any
>>>>opinions?
>>
>>>cgf writes -> I have one: Find another mailing list if you want to
>>>discuss ways of not using cygwin.  This is a mailing list devoted to
>>>actually *using* cygwin.
>>
>>I've read a LOT of cgf's one liner's, but this one *actually* broke me
>>up for a change! (I'm still chuckling!)
>
>Well, many times I find these kind of boring and rather counter
>productive.  This time I believe he even bites his own tail ;-p .
>
>The OP has no other way than actually use cygwin (i.e.  the
>cygwin1.dll) - thus m[rs] OP should be welcome here - according to any
>rules I can understand.  Nuff said.

What an odd interpretation of my email.

I did not say there was no other way to do this.  I pointed the "OP" at
the mingw project web page.  If there is another way, that project would
be the appropriate place to start looking.

There's certainly no reason to do what you seem to be suggesting and lie
to someone to keep them "within the cygwin fold" or to encourage people
to talk about applications that have nothing to do with cygwin.

If this is really the way you want to do things then I strongly
encourage you to start your own mailing list.  You can even fill it with
your own non-boring and productive missives, assuming you are capable of
such things.

cgf

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