From: hans AT brandinnovators DOT com (Hans Zuidam)
Subject: Re: The mail list in a news group
23 Jan 1997 18:20:26 -0800
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> Jim Balter wrote:
> Carl J R Johansson wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, 21 Jan 1997, Jim Balter wrote:
> > 
> > But I don't understand what bash, tar, gzip, ls etc. have to do with
> > compiling programs. There are already fully functional equivalents on
> > NT.

> But this isn't really the point; the point is that cygwin was born
> unix and will live unix, even if compiler is separated out, as with
> mingw32.

> ...  Meanwhile, the rest of us who need and want a total GNU-like
> environment because there *isn't any alternative* are rather pleased
> that cygwin is focusing on that, thank you very much.

Which is exactly why the GNU tools and eventually cygwin32 will be so
valuable: you can have the same tools on every platform you use.  Having
functional equivalent tools is not enough.  Compiling real world programs
usually involves a bit more that stuffing sources in a compiler.

			Hans

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