Date: Wed, 20 Aug 1997 18:02:49 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Orlando Andico <orly AT gibson DOT eee DOT upd DOT edu DOT ph>
cc: DJGPP List Server <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: producing Win32 executables
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On Wed, 20 Aug 1997, Orlando Andico wrote:

>  i've just tried out Cygnus GNU-Win32 (beta-18) on Windows NT Server and
> NT Workstation 4.0 and it's excellent! i'm no fan of NT, but GNU-Win32
> boasts of a very nice environment that's almost UNIX (for the UNIX fans
> out there). GCC is (already) self-hosting on this environment, and the
> compatibility with UNIX is pretty good.

That is great news.

However, people who need a *very* Unix-like environment should be
aware of the followig hearsay: the Cygnus ports of GNU tools are
mostly recompiles of the original code, with little or no
Windows-specific changes.  For example, most Textutils and Grep don't
use binary mode, especially when the I/O is redirected to/from a
pipe.  So programs like `grep', `cat' or `wc' might exhibit subtle
bugs when run on binary files.

I didn't try to use these tools, I only heard this from somebody who
compared the DJGPP ports with the Cygnus ones and reported the
results.  So please take this rumor with a grain of salt.