Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com From: "Siegfried Heintze" To: Subject: RE: Whow! What a beatiful experience!! Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 10:24:17 -0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 In-Reply-To: <20010302112035.C9319@redhat.com> Importance: Normal Here is more unqualified praise: I love it! It is very impressive. Keep up the good work! Someday I want to contribute. Siegfried -----Original Message----- From: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com [mailto:cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com]On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor Sent: Friday, March 02, 2001 9:21 AM To: Andersen, Jan Bruun Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Whow! What a beatiful experience!! You're welcome. Thank you for the unqualified praise. It's nice to see this amongst the usual: "I love Cygwin. It's really great. If only it..." cgf On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 03:12:49PM -0000, Andersen, Jan Bruun wrote: >Hi everyone, > >A BIG Thank You to everyone who has been involved in the creation of the >CygWin software. > >For a project, I wanted to create some small utilities to convert incoming >data file, but I only have this Win2K laptop :( As an old UNIX programmer, I >didn't feel like having to learn a Windows IDE, so I was planning to >repartitioning my NTFS disk to make room for a Linux distribution. > >But last night, I started to think "Maybe I can just install a Windows port >of gcc, lex and yacc instead?". This morning, I searched for >gcc+windows+binaries - and viola! CygWin came up. > >10 minutes later, thanks to that beautiful litte program called setup.exe, I >had en environment that looked just as I remembered UNIX :-) > >THANKS!!! > >-- >Jan Bruun Andersen >Information Specialist, B.Sc. >Solution Centre Denmark > >EDS Sverige AB, Solna Strandväg 96, SE-171 85 Solna, Sweden >(http://www.eds.se/) >"A More Productive Way of Working." > > >-- >Want to unsubscribe from this list? >Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple -- cgf AT cygnus DOT com Red Hat, Inc. http://sources.redhat.com/ http://www.redhat.com/ -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple