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Date: | Tue, 19 Mar 2002 10:20:40 -0500 |
From: | Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com> |
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Subject: | Re: Link for MORE |
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On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 06:29:09AM -0800, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: >>I have no objection if the original contributors want to take the >>cygutils source package, rip out everything that isn't (for instance) >>'mkshortcut'-related, and release a standalone autotool'ed mkshortcut. >>(However, I'm not pushing for that.) > >Personally, I feel a good test is whether it's something people are going >to look for coming from another *NIX platform or not. There are people who are >looking for the pager 'more' since that's what they used on SunOS 1.0 or >something. No one is going to be asking, "Why doesn't cygwin have 'mkshortcut' >or 'cygstart'!?!?" since they are cygwin-specific. (Not entirely true of, for >example, unix2dos but close.) Conversely, someone could ask "Why do I have to get mkshortcut when all that I wanted was cygstart!?!?" cgf
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