From: Richard Dawe <rich AT tudor21 DOT net>
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Subject: Re: DJGPP Setup Utility in the making.
Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2000 19:05:19 +0000
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Hello.

Damian Yerrick wrote:
> >IIRC the Cygnus tools do this too (cygwin32) and create a shortcut
> >in the Start Menu to open a Command Prompt (DOS box) with the
> >environment set up appropriately.
> 
> Red Hat Cygwin does this?

Yes, at least it did under Windows NT, IIRC. Up pops a nice bash shell
when you select it from the Start Menu.

(BTW Red Hat bought Cygnus recently. I get the impression you know this
though ;) )

> And mingw32 is just Cygwin that uses msvcrt.dll or crtdll.dll instead
> of 4 MB cygwin.dll and thereby loses the posix layer, right?

I think so, but I could wrong (as I was about the path in the original
mail - cheers for pointing that out).

Bye,

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