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Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 13:50:37 +0530
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My intent is not to emulate the low-level operating system API, it is rather to 
emulate the *environment* consisting of packages and programs, their versions, etc.

For example, instead of just imagining that I have taken care of these 
subtleties ( http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/highlights.html#ov-hi-perm) in my 
programs (and possibly others), I would like to actually be able to test them. 
And, as I said, instead of asking for access to a Windows/Cygwin node from my 
sys admin, it would be wonderful if I could achieve a "Linux on top of Linux", 
weird as it may sound.

So, this need for cross-platform compatibility (of my scripts) (between just the 
two of Windows and Fedora) may not be entirely unwarranted. Somewhat like the 
concept of cross-compilation for C programs without access to a physical target.

On 03/08/2012 01:22 PM, Mike Brown wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 01:15:20PM +0530, Harry Simons wrote:
>> Instead of asking for access to a Cygwin/Windows PC just for the above, I
>> thought it would be terrific if Cygwin could somehow be installed /
>> emulated on a Fedora.
> Linux on top of Linux?  I don't understand the need for that.
>
> MB

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