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Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2002 22:33:29 +0200 (CEST)
From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Sylvain=20Petreolle?= <spetreolle AT yahoo DOT fr>
Subject: Re: Windows can edit cygwin-files?
To: "Gerrit @ cygwin" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>, Fred Rathke <comrat AT hotmail DOT com>
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> 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.'

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