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From: Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 16:49:36 -0400
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Subject: Re: setting up Cygwin for windows
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In-Reply-To: <01b801bfe784$0e3de560$0201a8c0@mark>; from f.wagner@gmx.net on Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 09:54:54PM +0200

On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 09:54:54PM +0200, Frank Wagner wrote:
>is it possible to use cygwin and its toos without emulating a
>unix filesystem under windows?

Nope.  Sorry.  The whole purpose of cygwin is to emulate UNIX.

You can probably get away with using Windows paths for many of the tools
but I wouldn't claim that Windows paths (or other Windows paradigms) are
completely supported by every tool.

cgf

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