From: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com (Earnie Boyd)
Subject: Re: New Installation
20 Oct 1998 04:17:48 -0700
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To: Stephen Marley <Stephen DOT Marley AT memex DOT com>, gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

---Stephen Marley <Stephen DOT Marley AT memex DOT com> wrote:
>
> On 17 October 1998, Michael Hirmke wrote:
> > 
> > Get vim from
> >
ftp://ftp.franken.de/pub/win32/develop/gnuwin32/cygwin32/porters/Hirmke_Michael
> 
> I don't get it. Why should one use a Cygwin32 version of Vim when
> perfectly acceptable Win32 native ports (gui and console) exist?
> 

Simple, the mount table.  The Cygwin32 would recognize a cygwin
mounted directory structure where the Win32 native port doesn't.  This
is the _ONLY_ reason and IMHO not worth downloading the Cygwin version
if you have the native version already.

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