From: mstucky AT tiac DOT net (Mark B. Stucky)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: What is Cygwin32?
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 23:25:07 GMT
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On Fri, 21 Aug 1998 09:26:28 -0400 (EDT), DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
wrote:

>
>> What is cygwin32? Is it a library or what? Can it be used to develop 
>> win32 applications like RSXNTDJ? Can cygwin32 replace RSXNTDJ? Is 
>> cygwin32 supposed to work together with DJGPP or it is a separate 
>> complete package by itself (having its own compiler, library. etc)
>
>cygwin32 (http://www.cygnus.com/misc/gnu-win32/) is a package that
>makes Windows NT look just like Unix.  It includes ports of most GNU

Just to pick a minor nit...
This makes it sound like the cygwin32 package only works under NT...
It also works just fine with win95.

>tools, like djgpp, but unlike djgpp it builds native Win32 executables
>instead of djgpp's dos-extended executables.  The primary goal of
>cygwin is to allow you to build and run your unix programs under NT
>without having to port them.  Unlike DJGPP, it often gives up DOS
>compatibility to achieve this goal.
>
>Since it uses native Win32 executables, your programs have full access
>to the Win32 APIs and DLLs, including graphics.  However, it's still
>in beta, so it may not be as stable or fast as djgpp for
>command-line-type programs.

><plug>Note that Cygnus is the official maintainer for many GNU
>packages, so they're likely to get fixes out for them in less time
>than anyone else.</plug>
>
>DJ