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From: "Michael A. Chase" <mchase@ix.netcom.com>
To: "Troy Noble" <troy.noble@channelpoint.com>, <cygwin@cygwin.com>
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Subject: Re: broken CTRL-BREAK handling
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 16:27:04 -0700
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Troy Noble" <troy.noble@channelpoint.com>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 09:32
Subject: RE: broken CTRL-BREAK handling


> Bottom line... that still feels broken to me if the intent is for
> cygwin (more specifically, the bash shell running with cygwin) to
> be able to launch/stop native win32 apps with the same semantics one
> has come to expect when running cmd shell.
> If that's not the goal, then it's a non-issue.

My understanding is just about the opposite.  The purpose of Cygwin is to
allow UNIX applications to build and run under Win32 with as few changes as
possible.  That you can run Win32 apps from bash as well is just an extra
benefit.



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