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At 11:59 AM 10/10/2000, DJ Delorie wrote:

> > I would have thought that the whole point of the CygWin project was
>
>... to make Windows look like a POSIX/Unix environment, so that it
>would be easy to port existing GNU tools to it without having to teach
>all those tools how to behave like Windows programs.


And what would be the advantage of that?!;-)



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