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Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2002 01:06:21 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: faq: why doesn't tilde expansion work in shell scripts in cyg win?
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On Sat, Aug 24, 2002 at 09:26:18PM -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote:
>>Am I correct?  It's a little suprising to find Cygwin doesn't use a 
>>Posix-compliant shell...
>
>As I understand it, Cygwin includes ash specifically as a very-light-weight 
>shell for scripting and makefiles. It's small size and minimal feature set 
>gives it a low start-up time, which helps a lot when many of them get 
>executed, for example when running make.

Correct.

cgf

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