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From: "Matthew Brown" <mbrown AT mediadb DOT net>
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Subject: Re: stupid question??
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 10:34:45 -0500
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I use it mostly for the shell and Unix-like utilities for Windows. Most of what I do is on Solaris or Linux, but, as is the case right now, I am porting a Unix service to Windows NT; I don't want to have to rewrite my make files and such. So I don't use it as a portability layer for anything but my build environment.

-- Matthew Brown

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Sent: Friday, February 25, 2000 10:12 AM
Subject: stupid question??


> 
> Ok, I have to take issue with something here. For a few weeks now I've
> been skimming the posts about all these ports to cygwin
> with NT/95/98/whatever..inetd, etc, etc..
> And my question is, WHY? If you want all these unix programs, why not just
> use unix?
> It's like that scene from "notting hill" (for those who have seen it)
> where he offers the girl apricots soaked in honey, but one wonders why you
> would soak apricots in honey, because then they would taste like honey,
> and if you wanted honey, you'd just buy honey!
> 
> ok, i'm done ranting :)
> 
> -Cygnus
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