Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com From: Chris Faylor Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 16:49:36 -0400 To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: setting up Cygwin for windows Message-ID: <20000706164936.A22806@cygnus.com> Reply-To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com References: <01b801bfe784$0e3de560$0201a8c0@mark> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <01b801bfe784$0e3de560$0201a8c0@mark>; from f.wagner@gmx.net on Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 09:54:54PM +0200 On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 09:54:54PM +0200, Frank Wagner wrote: >is it possible to use cygwin and its toos without emulating a >unix filesystem under windows? Nope. Sorry. The whole purpose of cygwin is to emulate UNIX. You can probably get away with using Windows paths for many of the tools but I wouldn't claim that Windows paths (or other Windows paradigms) are completely supported by every tool. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com