Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-Id: <4.3.1.2.20001010124121.021a9c98@pop.ma.ultranet.com> X-Sender: lhall@pop.ma.ultranet.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.1 Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 12:44:08 -0400 To: DJ Delorie From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" Subject: Re: BUG: Invalid assumption about file paths beginning with '\' Cc: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com In-Reply-To: <200010101634.MAA08910@envy.delorie.com> References: <4.3.1.2.20001010121614.021bac30@pop.ma.ultranet.com> <4.3.1.2.20001010121614.021bac30@pop.ma.ultranet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 12:34 PM 10/10/2000, DJ Delorie wrote: > > > > I would have thought that the whole point of the CygWin project was > > > > > >... to make Windows look like a POSIX/Unix environment, so that it > > >would be easy to port existing GNU tools to it without having to teach > > >all those tools how to behave like Windows programs. > > > > And what would be the advantage of that?!;-) > >Cygnus (now Red Hat) sells custom versions of the GNU tools, which run >on, among other things, Windows. Creating Cygwin was the fastest way >to get those tools onto Windows. Purely selfish, I admit, but the >truth. > >Since then, many other reasons have come up for having Cygwin work >this way. Thanks DJ for answering my inappropriate attempt at sarcasm with a concise response that really does explain the motivation behind the genesis of Cygwin. Be assured, I see the advantages!:-) Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 118 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com