From: perry AT piermont DOT com (Perry E. Metzger)
Subject: Re: pathname conversion
24 Sep 1997 20:14:10 -0700
Message-ID: <199709250250.WAA28684.cygnus.gnu-win32@jekyll.piermont.com>
References: <3 DOT 0 DOT 3 DOT 32 DOT 19970924092155 DOT 018669d0 AT pop DOT pdx DOT informix DOT com>
Reply-To: perry AT piermont DOT com
To: Guy Gascoigne - Piggford <ggp AT informix DOT com>
Cc: "John R. Dennis" <jdennis AT sharpeye DOT com>, gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com


Guy Gascoigne - Piggford writes:
> I'd begun to get the idea that
> the Cygnus target wasn't to make the gnu tools compatible with NT, but to
> make NT look as much like unix as possible.

Exactly. Its basically a POSIX porting environment. It is *not* an NT
development environment per se, although I think its a mighty fine way
to get decent software running on NT.

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