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

Christopher Faylor cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com
Fri Jul 15 14:32:00 GMT 2005


On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 01:21:15PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>----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.
>
>I heard that Happy Fun Ball had tried it.

Really?  Well then, uh, that's ok then.  I know better than to question
Happy Fun Ball.

cgf



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