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From: "Hannu E K Nevalainen" <garbage_collector AT telia DOT com>
To: "ML CygWIN" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: A bit of history
Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2004 14:11:53 +0100
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FWIW, related to history:

There is ("was" in the sense that it has been very stale for quite some
time)
 a sister project to cygwin here:

	http://www.geekgadgets.org

I'm not aware of how this was related to cygwin, timewise - or otherwise.
I know that the founder of this project was employed(?) at cygnus solutions
sometime.

Somewhere around '98 the project was very active. The following is a listing
of a CD distribution from about then;

F:\>dir
 Volume in drive F is GG-980523
 Volume Serial Number is E66C-73DA

 Directory of F:\

1998-05-23  17:28       <DIR>          BASELINE
1998-05-23  17:28       <DIR>          BIN
1998-05-23  16:41                1 525 BOOT.000
1998-05-23  16:41              258 342 BOOT.LHA
1998-05-23  17:05                2 353 CHANGES
1998-05-23  17:32               46 203 CRCLIST
1998-05-23  17:30       <DIR>          DIFFS
1998-05-23  17:30                   23 DIRLIST
1998-05-23  17:30               29 126 FILELIST
1998-05-23  17:13                3 553 MAKEFILE
1998-05-23  17:07               14 722 README
1998-05-23  17:09               24 139 README-CVS
1998-05-23  17:09                5 783 README-X-WINDOWS
1998-05-23  17:29       <DIR>          SRC
1998-05-23  17:33                  643 TRANS.TBL
              11 File(s)        386 412 bytes
               4 Dir(s)               0 bytes free


/Hannu E K Nevalainen, B.Sc. EE - 59+16.37'N, 17+12.60'E

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