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On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 09:57:34AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Feb 16 00:45, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
>> On 02/15/11 19:40, hardya wrote:
>> >MSYS is described as a fork of cygwin that's specially suited to being used
>> >with win32.
>> How would MSYS be any more "specially suited to being used with
>> win32" than Cygwin itself, is it already "specially suited to being
>> used with win32"?!?
>
>Just a typo I guess.  s/win32/mingw32/

Actually, I had the same reaction as Andy at first.  Then I reparsed the line to
mean "pure win32 programs" and then it made more sense, even if it isn't strictly
true.

cgf

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