From: hf AT Melog DOT DE (Hauke Fath) Subject: "Name mangling", was: pathname conversion 25 Sep 1997 00:59:03 -0700 Message-ID: <3.0.1.32.19970925092614.008fd840.cygnus.gnu-win32@meloghost.melog.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Alex Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com At 19:09 24.09.97 -0700, Alex wrote: > >On Wed, 24 Sep 1997, Charles Curley wrote: > >> to Wimpdows, and thereby make Wimpdows at least bearable to those who have >> seen the power and flexibility of Unix. The idea was to impose a thin >> veneer of civilization on a barbaric entitity. So they came up with a >> Unix-style pathology to keep Unix programs and tools (and those who port >> them) happy. > >It's MS Windows NT or 95. Slurring Windows is just kinda stupid, as >Windows could also refer to X . Unless you can write an os better than >that useable en masse, could you at least spell it right? First: The X people insist on "X Window" -- get your own technical terms right before you correct others'. Second: Am I the only one who clearly sees the winking between Charles' lines, even without smileys? Too many humor-impaired people around? >> I have worked with Linux and HP-UX, and I find risable all the hoopla that >> the small, flaccid company is making over NT 5.0. Symlinks? Mount points? >> Excuse me? But then again, I *wrote* a 32 bit OS before Microsoft did, so I >> have never been impressed with their products. > >Then don't use them if you don't like them. Nobody's holding a gun to >your head to make you use them. I for one think that while the MS >products could use a lot of improvment, they do have their place, as does >the Macintosh. Yah, sure. As if there were OSes to pick from. Does "market share" ring a bell for you? There's this gun called "income". I'm somewhat strangely moved by Charles' words; it's about the same situation for me wrt cygwin and NT4. hauke -- Hauke Fath Melog Software GmbH D-69115 Heidelberg hf AT Melog DOT DE Ruf +49-6221-1333-0, Fax -33 - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".