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Date: Sun,  3 Mar 2002 09:31:46 +0000
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From: David Starks-Browning <starksb AT ebi DOT ac DOT uk>
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Subject: RE: "start" for Cygwin
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On Saturday 2 Mar 02, Stephan Mueller writes:
> Note though, that on Win9x, start is a standalone file (I forget if it's
> start.exe or start.com) on the path.
> Cygwin still supports 9x, so fears about consternation in some quarters
> still apply (it's just that they're different quarters than Charles
> originally had in mind :-)

I use Win9x, and I don't think it's a problem for the cygutils package
to introduce /usr/bin/start.  People who install the cygutils package
can probably figure out what's going on.

My opinion, anyway.

David


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