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From: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>, "Jerry Asher" <jerry AT hollyjerry DOT org>
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Subject: Re: cygwin: is it cygwin.dll, the files in cygwin/bin, or both?
Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 08:33:39 +1000
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jerry Asher" <jerry AT hollyjerry DOT org>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Sent: Monday, May 07, 2001 8:34 AM
Subject: cygwin: is it cygwin.dll, the files in cygwin/bin, or both?


> I am curious....
>
> I gather that cygwin.dll is a dll that supplies the unix api's we love
to
> Windows.
>
> I see that cygwin comes with locate, so I am going to try to set that
> up.  Of course, much of the value of locate comes with the db that
gets
> updated "frequently".  And yet, near as I can tell, there is no cron
> distributed with cygwin.
>
> So wow come there is no cron utility supported with cygwin?  Does that
> indicate something about what the cygwin project is that I don't quite
> understand?  Or are there simpler reasons?

Very simple: cygwin is cygwin1.dll. The rest is a distribution of GNU
and other unix tools we all love. No-one has ported cron yet.

Rob

> Thanks,
>
> Jerry
>
>
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