installing tar programs using cygwin

[Christopher Faylor]

On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 08:48:43AM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote:
>Dave Korn wrote:
>
>> On 09 April 2006 15:40, Max Bowsher wrote:
>> > Cygwin is not Linux.
>> 
>>   :)  Does a passable imitation of it, though!
>
>Well, it can muddle through if there's a karaoke machine but it doesn't
>quite have all the lyrics memorized yet.

I could be wrong but I think I heard somewhere that it wasn't completely
POSIX-compliant.

Or, wait, does that matter?

One thing I have noticed is that hardly any actual linux programs run on
Cygwin without first recompiling.  The speed improvement over Windows is
nice, though.

cgf