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On 11/18/2020 3:46 PM, Kristian Ivarsson via Cygwin wrote:
> Is there any other use cases for CYGWIN than to build applications running in Windows ? Do people use CYGWIN (shell) to operate or monitor their applications ? For all other use cases than the development (the shell) I cannot see why CYGWIN would favour posix-paths over native path’s, but maybe I’m wrong ?

To write software that can be compiled and run under Windows, Linux and 
MacOS.


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