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Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 13:51:20 -0700 (PDT)
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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Subject: Re: CygUtils Version of zip (and Symlinks)
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--- Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 04:38:05PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote:
> >When you get right down to it, cygwin is NOT windows. It does everything
> >it can to make windows look like Unix, so that apps can run *as if they
> >were on unix* with little or no changes. So, by that logic,
> >cygwin-zip/unzip =should= be built as unix-ish apps, not windows-ish
> >ones.
> >
> >Comments?
> 
> I agree (big surprise). 

So do I, and to the point that I remove the -D_WIN32 and -DWINNT from the specs
file.

Regards,



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