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On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 12:15 PM, r <r-trev AT fastwebmail DOT it> wrote:
>
> ok, I'm going to learn to manage basic cygwin-linux features
[...]
> I saw unlike linux that cygwin does not warn me when there are new
[...]
> Is there a way ( like in linux ) to send a message to my prompt
[...]
>
> R

I think one source of confusion is because of the areas I have
highlighted.  Don't expect cygwin to be like linux, because it is not
linux.  It is cygwin.  Cygwin gives Windows a "UNIX-like" environment,
it does not turn Windows into linux or UNIX.

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