Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Unsubscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 09:16:58 -0400 From: Chuck Boyce Subject: RE: cygwin vs. MKS Toolkit To: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Message-id: <37BD554A.664FC6A@post.drexel.edu> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (WinNT; I) Content-type: MULTIPART/ALTERNATIVE; BOUNDARY="Boundary_(ID_xvGnRpBloQgvboMycnE3vA)" X-Accept-Language: en --Boundary_(ID_xvGnRpBloQgvboMycnE3vA) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Thanks Suhaib, That's *exactly* why I'm asking. It's on sale for like $128. btw at www.provantage.com until October (with $75. rebate). Best! Chuck > MKS Toolkit is collection of bunch of GNU utilities, which are already > part of Cygwin. I am not sure why would you like to pay 200 buck for > something GNU utils which are available free from several places on > Internet, including source code from GNU itself. I am also not sure how MKS > charge for those utilities which were written by GNU, like sh, sed and ls > etc etc. > > Suhaib > -- *************************************************************************** Chuck Boyce http://httpsrv.ocs.drexel.edu/grad/sg95m476/ sg95m476 AT post DOT drexel DOT edu (215)432-4386 Fax: 530-240-5177 get a free fax # http://www.fax4free.com/ AOL Instant Messenger ID: sg95m476 http://www.aol.com/aim/home.html Yahoo Messenger ID: sg95m476_1999 http://messenger.yahoo.com ICQ Messenger ID: 41449031 http://www.icq.com/ =========== * _o # * _ \>_ # * (_)/(_) # ~~~~~~~~~~~ *************************************************************************** --Boundary_(ID_xvGnRpBloQgvboMycnE3vA) Content-type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Thanks Suhaib,

That's *exactly* why I'm asking. It's on sale for like $128. btw at www.provantage.com until October (with $75. rebate).

Best!

Chuck

MKS Toolkit is collection of bunch of GNU utilities, which are already
part of Cygwin.  I am not sure why would you like to pay 200 buck for
something GNU utils which are available free from several places on
Internet, including source code from GNU itself.  I am also not sure how MKS
charge for those utilities which were written by GNU, like sh, sed and ls
etc etc.

Suhaib

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