From: cgf AT bbc DOT com (Chris Faylor)
Subject: Re: Feedback needed on proposed cygwin feature
3 Dec 1997 12:58:46 -0800
Message-ID: <EKMD39.33r.cygnus.gnu-win32@bbc.com>
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Reply-To: cgf AT bbc DOT com
To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

In article <199712021741 DOT EAA13772 AT mundook DOT cs DOT mu DOT OZ DOT AU>,
Fergus Henderson  <fjh AT cs DOT mu DOT OZ DOT AU> wrote:
>cgf AT bbc DOT com (Chris Faylor) writes:
>
>>Btw, since I don't seem to have made myself sufficiently clear, I was
>>not talking about removing environment variable support.  I was talking
>>about changing CYGWIN_* environment variables to CYGWIN32=*.
>
>I don't see any good reason to hard-code the `32'.
>
>Using `CYGWIN32' won't look very good on say the 64-bit NT Alpha port.

Good point.  Hmm.  How about:

CYGWIN32ORGREATER

?  :-)

Only kidding.  Now that I think of it, I can't remember why I added the
32 to begin with.  Probably just to distinguish it from the CYGWIN_*
style variables a little more.
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