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From: Bernard Dautrevaux <Dautrevaux AT microprocess DOT com>
To: "'Robert A McDougall'" <McDougall AT agecon DOT purdue DOT edu>,
        Bernard Dautrevaux
	 <Dautrevaux AT microprocess DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: RE: New symlinks
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 11:57:59 +0100 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert A McDougall [mailto:McDougall AT agecon DOT purdue DOT edu]
> Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 8:42 PM
> To: Bernard Dautrevaux; cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: RE: New symlinks
> 
> 
> On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, at 19:35:42 +0100, Bernard Dautrevaux mangled the 
> formatting of a message sent by Larry Hall on Thursday, March 
> 01, 2001 
> at 6:51 PM; and wrote:
> 
> > > At 12:28 PM 3/1/2001, Robert A McDougall wrote:
> > > >On Wed, 28 Feb 2001 at 18:38:11 -0500 Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > For what gain?  So that users can create symlinks that 
> > > could be used
> > > > > from Windows?  I am wondering if the gain is worth the price.
> > > >
> > > >What he said!
> > > >
> > 
> > He said he's not sure it's worth the trouble to try to 
> allow native Windows
> > programs and Cygwin programs to work together nicely.
> 
> Sorry, this is a stupid English idiom (or stale American joke 
> line). It 
> means, more or less, "I agree with what he said so well."

Oh... thanks; I've learned something :-)

> 
> > > BTW, I think its great that Corinna's work has brought up 
> > > this issue.  The
> > > ability to use Windows shortcuts in Cygwin has been a 
> > > recurring "request"
> > > and it's wonderful that she's taken some time to address it.  
> 
> What he said, too!
> 
> > What I like with Corinna's solution is that it works both 
> ways, something
> > that helps a lot integrating POSIX applications ported 
> under cygwin and
> > existing Windows applications; after all THAT is the 
> obective of cygwin
> > isn't it? 
> 
> It's up to the Cygnus/Red Hat guys to say what the objective 
> of Cygwin 
> is. But as the user guide ("http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-
> net/overview.html") notes, it is useful for more than one purpose.
> 

Sorry, I should have said "ONE of the objectives of cygwin"

Regards,

	Bernard

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