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Dave Korn wrote:

>   Same reason as strace, I would assume: it's a DOS-based program, not a cygwin one.

I think you mean "it's a MSVCRT-based program" since DOS hasn't existed
in Windows in the last approx. 7 years.

(And now if I could only get people to stop incorrectly referring to a
NT/2k/XP/Vista command prompt a DOS prompt... and I also want a pony.)

Brian

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