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Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 19:11:30 -0600
Reply-To: Bruce AT EckelObjects DOT com
From: "Bruce Eckel" <Bruce AT EckelObjects DOT com>
To: "Dave Price" <davep AT kinaole DOT org>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Thanks
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Yep, for sure.

Two big problems solved, when using makefiles (which I use a lot
under Windows, with Python, to build things):

1) backslashes vs forward slashes. Not so big, but annoying

2) command line length! Was a real problem.

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On 7/17/2002 at 7:02 PM Dave Price wrote:

>On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 06:28:36PM -0600, Bruce Eckel wrote:
>> Wanted to make sure you all know you're appreciated. Cygwin has
>> solved *so* many problems for me, it is a completely
indispensable
>> part of Windows for me now. Thanks so much.
>
>Here Here! - especially the part about an indispensable 'part of
>windows'.  I am a command prompt junky anyway; now I keep a cygwin
>prompt available on any win box i need to use regurlarly.
>
>aloha,
>dave



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