Request for a version/ revision/ release number for the whole Cygwin release/ distribution

Dave Korn dave.korn@artimi.com
Thu Jan 6 13:35:00 GMT 2005


> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-talk-owner On Behalf Of Igor Pechtchanski
> Sent: 05 January 2005 19:24

> >   I liked that passage, it reminds me of a Harry Harrison 
> short story I
> > was reading recently.  Being HH, it wasn't dwarves and 
> saber-tooths, it
> > was corpsmen of the space marines and their 
> genetically-modified mutant
> > camel steeds, which had an annoying habit of biting.  Their 
> arms off!
> 
> Sorry to dredge up an old topic, but I was basically raking 
> my brains (on
> and off) all this time, trying to recall the name of that story.  I
> finally got it -- "Space Rats of the CCC".  Gee, should I be proud, or
> what? :-D
> 	Igor
> P.S. A great story, BTW.


  LOL, yeh, I think you win much kudos for good taste in SciFi there!  I love
that story, I find casual carnage and dismemberment highly entertaining[*] :)


    cheers, 
      DaveK

[*] ... subject to it not being _my_ members that get dis-ed ...
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