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From: "Dave Korn" <dave DOT korn AT artimi DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: Cygwince
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 17:41:12 +0100
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----Original Message----
>From: Dave Korn
>Sent: 22 April 2005 17:24

> ----Original Message----
>> From: Craig A. Vanderborgh
>> Sent: 22 April 2005 17:19
> 
>> We are going to be starting with the mingw version of Cygwin - MSYS -
>> primarily to try to keep the size of the DLL down.  Another reason for
>> starting from this distribution is that MSYS has a version of bash and
>> the utilities that all come together in a fairly tidy bundle.
> 
> 
>   This would be a terrible mistake, since MSYS has nothing to do with
> cygwin whatsoever but is an entirely separate and unrelated port of gnu
> tools to windoze.


  Although to be fair, it _will_ achieve your stated goal of keeping the
.dll size down........    <g>


    cheers,
      DaveK
-- 
Can't think of a witty .sigline today....


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