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On 01/07/2010 03:04 PM, mike marchywka wrote:
> As one who asks rhetorical questions myself, the point doesn't seem to 
> have hit a lot of people does it? It isn't so much the 
> work-with-windoze aspect as much as "why do you need a command line 
> thing when you have a gui?" You really should just have a one-link 
> answer that explains that.
Nonsense. There are a million answers to that question and one can as 
easily ask "Why have a gui when you can have a command line?" The answer 
is there a place for both. People coming to install Cygwin often have a 
need for a good command line, and all that that entails. You could also 
ask "If you have a GUI why VMWare a Linux box, etc.". You do know that 
there are things that a command line is better for than a GUI.
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