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From: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
To: "'John Vincent'" <jpv50 AT hotmail DOT com>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: WINE and Cygwin
Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 21:51:54 +1000
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com 
> [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com] On Behalf Of John Vincent
> Sent: Wednesday, 29 May 2002 9:17 PM
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: WINE and Cygwin
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Forgive my ignorance (or lack of
> imagination), but since WINE is a windows
> emulator, and Cygwin runs on windows,
> why would you want to port WINE to Cygwin?

You wouldn't. You might want to use cygwin to port WINE to reactos.
Reactos is binary compatible with mingw, but lacks all the GUI stuff
that MS provide for Windows users.

Rob


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