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Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 22:14:34 -0700
From: Joshua Daniel Franklin <joshuadfranklin AT gmail DOT com>
To: Chris Carlson <ccarlson AT istor DOT com>, cygwin <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: PATH and HOME in cygwin
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On Wed, 2 Jun 2004 12:47:27 -0700, Chris Carlson wrote:
> Suggesting the reading of a book on shells wouldn't be quite
> useful either, since Cygwin does things just a little differently.  A
> pointer to the Cygwin document might have helped.  I'm still 
> looking for it.

I thought I'd point out that we're always happy to consider updates to
the documentation. Even an email to the list with specifics about what
Cygwin weirdnesses someone wishes she/he knew before might help.

It's also very difficult to know what exactly about Cygwin's
difference is important to describe--NT vs. POSIX is a big topic.

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