Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-VirusChecked: Checked X-Env-Sender: Bill DOT Hughes AT cox DOT co DOT uk X-Msg-Ref: server-5.tower-14.messagelabs.com!1096900948!11707516 X-StarScan-Version: 5.2.10; banners=cox.co.uk,-,- X-Originating-IP: [62.172.235.173] Message-ID: From: "Hughes, Bill" To: "'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'" , Dave Korn Subject: RE:[OT] Request for a version/ revision/ release number for the w hole Cygwin release/ distribution Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 15:41:01 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-IsSubscribed: yes Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Mon, 4 Oct 2004, Dave Korn wrote: ..snip.. >> Certainly. Just stand still right here for just one minute........ >> >> ****KER-SQUELCH-SPLAT-SMACK**** >> [sound of massive slap round face with a very wet kipper] >> >> That'll learn 'im! Ha, I've never seen a kipper more than a few ounces, now a fresh cod can easily be over ten pounds.... And has a harder^W more educational consistency. > Umm, this reminded me of a passage in a book I'm reading: > > "You. Name a test to determine whether a recruit is > fit to become > a marine." > The dwarf scratched her trimmed beard. "The recruit is tied--" > she hastily corrected herself "--the recruit /volunteers/ to be > tied to a sabre-toothed tiger and shut up in its cave. If the > recruit comes out, she passed. If the tiger comes out, she > failed. If she comes out riding the sabre-toothed > tiger, make her > a corporal."[*] > > I just felt that this sums up the whole volunteering bit nicely. > Though perhaps it's time to TITTTL... > Igor > [*] With apologies to Mary Gentle. Did she write 'Grunts!' ? There was a book I felt a bit uncomfortable laughing at... but I spent a lot of time laughing. Bill -- ___ oo // \\ "De Chelonian Mobile" (_,\/ \_/ \ TortoiseSVN \ \_/_\_/> The coolest Interface to (Sub)Version Control /_/ \_\ http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org This e-mail transmission is strictly confidential and intended solely for the person or organisation to whom it is addressed. It may contain privileged and confidential information and if you are not the intended recipient, you must not copy, distribute or take any action in reliance on it. If you have received this email in error, please reply to the sender as soon as possible and delete the message. Please note that we are able to, and reserve the right to, monitor e-mail communications passing through our network. The views expressed in this email are not that of the company unless specified within the message. The inclusion of this footnote indicates that the mail message and any attachments have been checked for the presence of known viruses. If you have any comments regarding our policy please direct them to postmaster AT cox DOT co DOT uk ________________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned for all viruses by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information on a proactive email security service working around the clock, around the globe, visit http://www.messagelabs.com ________________________________________________________________________ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/