Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Message-ID: <20020408023848.77132.qmail@web20008.mail.yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2002 19:38:48 -0700 (PDT)
From: Joshua Daniel Franklin <joshuadfranklin AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: Re: cygwin-man
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

>>       fact,  Cygwin  was  once known as GNU/Win32.)

> I don't think there is any reason to mention this.  It is really ancient
> history now.

I have BA in History. :)

>>As such, the user environment is more similar to a GNU/Linux system>
>>than, for example, Sun Solaris.

>I find the term GNU/Linux a real abomination.  

I think the theory is that someone could put a Linux kernel with, say, 
BSD versions of the CL tools. But, it's never happened, so it does seem like
a waste of four letters (as I write this on my Debian GNU/Linux laptop 
connected to my Red Hat Linux firewall).

I'll move around the BUGS stuff, I was going to add that to intro.3
also. COPYRIGHT looks good?

I was already thinking that COMPATIBILITY seemed too wordy. Here's a 
maybe better one:

COMPATIBILITY
       Cygwin  uses the GNU versions of many of the standard UNIX
       command-line utilities (sed, awk, etc.), so the user envi-
       ronment  is more similar to a Linux system than, for exam-
       ple, Sun Solaris.

       The default login  shell  for  Cygwin  is  bash,  the  GNU
       "Bourne-Again  Shell",  but  other shells such as tcsh (an
       improved csh) are also  available  and  can  be  installed
       using Cygwin's setup.exe.  The Bourne-compatible shell ash
       is used as /bin/sh.


__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax
http://taxes.yahoo.com/

--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Bug reporting:         http://cygwin.com/bugs.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/