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Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2016 18:03:12 -0600
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On 2016-02-15 17:46, waterlan wrote:
> Yaakov Selkowitz schreef op 2016-02-15 21:12:
>> On 2016-02-15 13:41, Erwin Waterlander wrote:
>>> Why would anyone run DosBOX under Cygwin???
>>
>> 64-bit Windows versions do not have any compatibility layer for DOS
>> programs.
>
> I run DosBOX-win32 directly on 64 bit Windows. No need for a Cygwin
> POSIX layer here.

You could say the same of many packages.  If you want to run MinGW or 
MSYS, go right ahead.  If you want to use Cygwin as an environment in 
and of its own, then the more packages therein the better.

-- 
Yaakov

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