From: lhall AT rfk DOT com (Larry Hall)
Subject: Re: New Installation
21 Oct 1998 00:55:42 -0700
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To: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com, Stephen Marley <Stephen DOT Marley AT memex DOT com>,
        gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

At 02:33 PM 10/19/98 -0700, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>---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.
>

Unless you like and want to use Cygwin symbolic links...


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