Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Andrew DeFaria Subject: Re: MS offers "Services For Unix" free of charge Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 20:58:41 -0800 Lines: 28 Message-ID: References: <20040114213617.GD4088@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031205 Thunderbird/0.4 In-Reply-To: Note-from-DJ: This may be spam Chris January wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 04:26:03PM -0500, Robb, Sam wrote: >> >>>> But beyond curiosity, there's not many reasons to install and use >>>> both, at least concurrently. Cygwin and SFU both address the same >>>> needs and Cygwin covers a wider range of tools. We'll >>>> see what happens though. >>> >>> One thing that Cygwin does lack, and SFU has, is an NFS client :-/ I >>> know that alone will probably entice me into taking a look at SFU. >> >> It would be rather interesting to add nfs to cygwin. We could develop >> filesystem "plug-ins" which could be generalized for stuff like NFS, >> EXTFS, etc. >> >> Didn't someone say they had a free month? Perfect project. :-) > > Isn't the SFU NFS client an installable file system, i.e. you can use > it anywhere in Windows, not just with the SFU stuff? Last I checked SFU's NFS was just DiskAccess and the POSIX was merely a 30-day trial of MKS. Has that changed (aside from possibly the MKS portion being a non time bombed trial -> a full copy)? -- The other day I was playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/