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Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 12:59:09 -0700 (PDT)
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package `inetutils' in latest
To: Ken Coleman <kcoleman AT yahoo DOT com>, cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
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--- Ken Coleman <kcoleman AT yahoo DOT com> wrote:
> If the daemons are only useful in NT/W2K, then do they
> really belong in the Cygwin distribution proper? 
> Those of us on 9X are going to get files that are
> useless to us when we do a net install, and AFAIK
> there is currently nothing in the Cygwin distribution
> that isn't useful to us.
> 

Well the package does contain the client side utilities that would be useful in
the win9x environment.

> By the way, is it actually so difficult to fall back
> on /etc/passwd authentication if you're on 9X?  The
> cygutils version works perfectly for this.
> 

Send your diff file to cygwin-apps AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com for consideration.

Cheers,

=====
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   Earnie Boyd: <mailto:earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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