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 Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 19:30:27 -0600 From: Joshua Daniel Franklin To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: MS offers "Services For Unix" free of charge Message-ID: <20040115193027.A13134@ns1.iocc.com> References: <3D848382FB72E249812901444C6BDB1D022F478C@exchange.timesys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu on Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 12:10:57PM -0500 On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 12:10:57PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Robb, Sam wrote: > > > > With carrier pigeon 1.0, the beak is so small you have to > > > dis-assemble/re-assemble the IP packets. > > > > > > Carrier pigeon 2.0 has a bigger beak and can hold a full packet. > > > > > > Unfortunately the evolutionary process is goin slow. Maybe within a > > > couple of millenium. > > > > > > Have you thought about using IP-over-turkey instead? > > > > > > It is slower and not very sexy, but with the bigger beak, you can get > > > better bandwidth. > > > > > > Greg > > > > We've been using IP-over-pelican. No problems with packet > > size, excellent bandwidth, and it's eliminated my need for > > a weekly trip to the local sushi bar. > > > > -Samrobb > > Hmm, I'd've thought you'd put the fish to good use -- IP-over-tuna should > eliminate the need for fiber optic cables from the US to Europe... > Igor > P.S. I sure hope Joshua Daniel Franklin is monitoring this thread. It's already on the list : Kidding aside, however, I thought maybe the MS-SFU versions of some GNU utils might have useful patches, which they have to release to comply with the GPL. I downloaded the bash source from but it appears to be vanilla bash (except it includes pre-configured Makefiles and a couple header diffs). Of course, Cygwin bash is vanilla also. gcc might be much more interesting. -- 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/