Can cygwin be loaded and it's utilities be used on Unix

Dave Korn dave.korn@artimi.com
Fri Jul 15 12:24:00 GMT 2005


----Original Message----
>From: Christopher Faylor
>Sent: 15 July 2005 00:21

> On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 01:12:45AM +0200, Lasse wrote:
>> Brian Dessent wrote:
>>> Second of all, Cygwin is a windows DLL.  There is absolutely no way to
>>> run it under Linux or any other system that's not Windows, unless you
>>> are talking about WINE or something.
>> 
>> Hmmm...  Has any tried it?  :-)
> 
> Nope.  Absolutely no one has tried it in any way whatsoever and no one
> ever will.  Any reports you hear of people trying it will be no more
> than taunting lies.
> 
> cgf


  I heard that Happy Fun Ball had tried it.

    cheers,
      DaveK
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