Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , 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: <20020721203329.40446.qmail@web10103.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2002 22:33:29 +0200 (CEST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Sylvain=20Petreolle?= Subject: Re: Windows can edit cygwin-files? To: "Gerrit @ cygwin" , Fred Rathke In-Reply-To: <13450151143.20020721221331@familiehaase.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > No, that isn't Cygwin, maybe there are some other 'systems' doing > s.th. like this (BEOS?). > Storing the entire ext2fs filesystem in a DOS file to simulate a harddisk isn't cygwin and has no matter to do with BeOS. This is UMSDOS, old use of the loopback device. (catastrophic in terms of filesystem performance) So were installed the first Linux distributions for newbies that just wanted to 'see how does it works & looks.' ___________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? -- Une adresse @yahoo.fr gratuite et en français ! Yahoo! Mail : http://fr.mail.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/