From: Rodeo Red <rodeored AT netstep DOT net>
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Subject: Re: [ANN] Announcing PW32 - the DJGPP 'port' to Win32
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2000 08:38:02 -0500
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Could someone please translate this into Newbie ? I'm totally lost
trying to read this. Basically I'm wondering if this is a library for
making windows programs  Or does it make non windows  programs which run
on more up to date windows platforms or something like that ?  I went to
the website and its all in early post neo colonial greek. 

Red
Paul Sokolovsky wrote:
> 
> I would like to announce PW32 the Posix-over-Win32 layer, as close relative
> of DJGPP ;-)
> 
> PW32 is implementation of (subset of) POSIX/Unix API for Win32 systems. Its
> main concerns are efficiency and full platform coverage, including adequate
> support for low-end Win9x systems. PW32 is based on DJGPP's runtime library
> by DJ Delorie. PW32 is licensed under LGPL.
> 
> 0.3.0 is second public and first 'full-fledged' (as for alpha)
> release. Changes include:
> 
> * Many bugfixes.
> * Tested and runs on 9x and NT. On 95, problems known and identified, with
> workarounds provided.
> * Binaries provided: build environment based on gcc-2.95.2-1-mingw32
> (courtesy of Mumit Khan), ash, fileutils, textutils, sed, grep, sh-utils,
> diffutils, make.
> * Updated documentation.
> 
> http://pw32.sourceforge.net/
> 
> The discussion list for PW32 is mingw32 mailing list, web interface at
> http://www.egroups.com/list/mingw32 .
> 
> Paul