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Re: Cygwin: Open or Closed System? (was: two problems with cygwin's zip)
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- Subject: Re: Cygwin: Open or Closed System? (was: two problems with cygwin's zip)
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 13:12:36 -0400
- References: <993648794.12881.ezmlm@sources.redhat.com> <3B39F797.7000608@gruntose.com> <007c01c0ff1d$ee63b460$6131800a@ebs.enron.net>
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On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 10:28:47AM -0500, B. K. Oxley (binkley) wrote:
>From: "Fred T. Hamster" <fred@gruntose.com>
>>i for one cannot accept the rationale being promulgated that a system
>>for unix emulation on win32 should be ignorant of the native platform's
>>path specification, when calling into the environment from windows is
>>clearly a desirable capability. to me, that rationale seems to
>
>It would also be nice to see more said of other alternatives, such as
>UWIN, and how the compare with Cygwin. I'm sure they have good ideas
>we can reuse, just as Cygwin has good ideas they can reuse.
Yep. I think that this is a good idea. It would be nice to hear how
other packages handle this.
cgf
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