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Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 21:28:35 +0200
From: Paul Sokolovsky <paul-ml AT is DOT lg DOT ua>
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To: "Henry J. Cobb" <hcobb AT telegenisys DOT com>, cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject: Re: Putting windows last
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Hello Henry,

Henry J. Cobb <hcobb AT telegenisys DOT com> wrote:

HJC> Sometimes I need to call the builtin Windos find or sort.
HJC> To handle this, I've moved the Cygnus tools to gfind.exe and gsort.exe

HJC> I don't see why adding the Cygnus toolkit should require dropping features
HJC> already builtin to Windos itself.

     Very easy, I guess. Have you read POSIX the open systems
standard? Did you compare what it requires from sort and find with ms'
ones? So, better rename them. ;-)



Best regards,
 Paul                            mailto:paul-ml AT is DOT lg DOT ua


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