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 From: Chris Faylor Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 18:09:17 -0400 To: cygwin@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: BUG: Invalid assumption about file paths beginning with '\' Message-ID: <20001010180917.A6419@cygnus.com> Reply-To: cygwin@sources.redhat.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@sources.redhat.com References: <4.3.1.2.20001010121614.021bac30@pop.ma.ultranet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.6i In-Reply-To: ; from nzanella@cs.mun.ca on Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 07:31:39PM -0230 On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 07:31:39PM -0230, Neil Zanella wrote: > >On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote: > >> At 11:59 AM 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?!;-) > > >So that us Unix programmers can feel at home in a hostile land where >every other command takes 10 seconds to start up just because someone >decided to design an interface where every command starts up in its >own little window. DOS really sucks compared to bash which has lots >of programming features built into it unlike the DOS prompt. We like >Unix and like to take it with us no matter what OS we work with. Larry was being sarcastic. Hence, the ";-)". As on of the "early adopters" of UNIX, he's well aware of cygwin's usefulness. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com