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From: "Parker, Ron" <rdparker AT butlermfg DOT com>
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Subject: RE: Windows 9x environment space solution
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 15:31:02 -0600
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> From: Chris Faylor [mailto:cgf AT cygnus DOT com]

> That's fine with me.  I would eventually like a solution 
> which set the PATH
> environment variable globally since a lot of people seem to 
> be confused by
> this but it doesn't have to happen now.
> 
> And, I don't think that it is likely that people will be 
> complaining that
> they can't use their Windows "FIND" command once cygwin is 
> installed.  In
> three years of reading the cygwin mailing list, I don't think 
> I've ever
> seen someone complain that a cygwin utility was shadowing a Microsoft
> utility.

I use the cygwin tools at work to solve many different problems and
frequently deploy a subset of them within a group here. Typically for
something that can be solved quickly with a script.  No one knows where they
come from because there is a serious Unix/Linux phobia around here.  (I am
working on that.)  However, some of the Professional Engineers around here
think they are developers and they use "many highly sophisticated batch
files, that I just wouldn't understand".  (Try not to laugh when someone
tells you that.) I caught some serious backlash for putting the cygwin
binaries in the PATH and "changing default behavior of the operating
system."  I guess it made me gun shy.

The people that use the cygwin mailing list are a little more computer savvy
than my normal "target audience".