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Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 08:06:20 -0400
From: Mark Aberdeen <mark DOT aberdeen AT alcatel DOT com>
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To: linguist-cygwin AT rich-paul DOT net
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Subject: Re: Uses
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A bit of a newbie question here, but....

Are there limits to what applications you can run in the XFree86
environment?  If I installed this environment, would I still be able to use
all of my Windows-based programs still?


linguist-cygwin AT rich-paul DOT net wrote:

> Even though my company (for now) demands Visual C++ executables,
> I am able to use cygwin for it's make, and virtualize directories
> using it's mount command.  Also, the shell scripts that run my
> java are WORA, now that I've hacked my cygwin to translate the
> CLASSPATH, JAVA_HOME, etc, etc variables for me.  ;)
>
> I am beside myself with bliss.
>
> On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 02:49:08PM -0400, Chris Mason wrote:
> > I am  a big user of Linux for servers and Win2K for my
> > workstations, and I am facinated with cygwin. Current, I have
> > installed it with Xfree86 so that I can forward X11 over SSH
> > with Secure CRT and run KDE from my servers onmy Windows
> > desktop. That in itself is amazing and worth the time involved,
> > but I am very interested to hear what other reasons people
> > would use cygwin. As I can run any unix program on my Linux
> > servers or laptop, is there a role for cygwin?
> > Thanks
> >=20
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