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From: "Jerry van Dijk" <jvandyk AT attglobal DOT net>
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Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 13:25:10 +0200
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Subject: Re: [gnatlist] Re: your command request
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Pierre Habraken writes:

 > The aim of what I want to do is to provide our students (undergraduate
 > level) with a posix programming environment (including Ada) that they
 > can easily install and use at home on their own machine.

If you just need a programming environment, you could also use a mingw
based solution. For example MSYS or (my preference) 
http://unxutils.sourceforge.net. If you want a unix-like runtime environment
for portability than Cygwin is indeed the only free choice.

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--  Jerry van Dijk   | email: jvandyk AT attglobal DOT net
--  Leiden, Holland  | web:   users.ncrvnet.nl/gmvdijk


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