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From: Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 18:09:17 -0400
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Subject: Re: BUG: Invalid assumption about file paths beginning with '\'
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.4.21.0010101920550.30082-100000@garfield.cs.mun.ca>; from nzanella@cs.mun.ca on Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 07:31:39PM -0230

On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 07:31:39PM -0230, Neil Zanella wrote:
>
>On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote:
>
>> 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?!;-)
>
>
>So that us Unix programmers can feel at home in a hostile land where
>every other command takes 10 seconds to start up just because someone
>decided to design an interface where every command starts up in its
>own little window. DOS really sucks compared to bash which has lots
>of programming features built into it unlike the DOS prompt. We like
>Unix and like to take it with us no matter what OS we work with.

Larry was being sarcastic.  Hence, the ";-)".

As on of the "early adopters" of UNIX, he's well aware of cygwin's
usefulness.

cgf

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