From: aurel AT xylo DOT owl DOT de (Aurel Balmosan) Subject: RE: Observations and suggestions 3 Jan 1997 17:03:23 -0800 Sender: daemon AT cygnus DOT com Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Original-To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com (Maillist Cygnus) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL21] Content-Length: 1485 Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Hi, I followed this discussion about being compatible to something. Personally I do not see a reason for that. But the creators of cygnus.dll should think what cygnus.dll should provide: A) a unix compatible environment. or B) a unix/windows mix. For a unix compatible environment mixed-case filenames must be always allowed (and only mixed-case filenames (no special filename cryptic for this)) Also there should not be a difference between ASCII and BINARY files and file systems. (If a certain file-system is only capable of fixed case filenames than these files should be mapped to lower case (eg.)) I think that adding to much windows/dos compatible options will make the porting of unix programs to gnu-win32 difficult (and maybe that program only runs correctly if some environment variables are set to some value) I would prefer if the standard unix environment is available with gnu-win32. (Otherwise I see many problems porting/compiling programs with gnu-win32. (Eg. XFree86 the free x86 X-Server) Or the pipe communication between parent and child where binary data are transfered. So no need for implicit \n\r conversion. ) What about making two different cygnus.dll's. One for a full unix environment. The other for a unix/windows/dos mix. (Here I see many problems with a unix/windows/dos mix to be compatible) Of course this is only my own opinion. What I would like to now is if I am alone with this? Or if some others see it like I do. Aurel Balmosan - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".