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Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 01:00:02 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: How to (dynamically) control Unix/Dos PATH-like variable translation
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In-Reply-To: <20010403214419.B3112@redhat.com>; from cgf@redhat.com on Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 09:44:19PM -0400

Robert Collins said:
>It's a low priority because, out of a user base of thousands (Chris ,
>do you have any rough count?  ), only 1 user has reported this as a
>nice thing to have - you.

883 subscribers to the cygwin mailing list
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Cygwin downloads averaged 28GB a month prior to turning off downloads
from sources.redhat.com.

We estimate total downloads of cygwin itself to be in the millions.

To be fair, I think a couple of people indicated that they wanted this
feature.  You correctly summarized the realities in your message, though
Robert.

Thank you so much for consistently "getting it".

cgf

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