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On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 10:05:50AM -0700, Gary Johnson wrote:
>On 2009-08-28, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>I'm not seeing a whole-lot of cygwin-specific issues here.  The cygwin
>>list is not here to help people get up to speed on how to program or
>>how to use UNIX.
>>
>>I've been hoping that I won't have to step in and be mean but I would
>>appreciate it if you would find some other forum for working out your
>>beginner programming issues.
>
>How is a beginner supposed to know that his is a Unix issue and not a
>Cygwin issue?  Not understanding this comes with being a beginner.

The four responses to the original message made that clear.

cgf

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