Feedback needed on proposed cygwin feature

Fergus Henderson fjh@cs.mu.OZ.AU
Tue Dec 2 09:41:00 GMT 1997


cgf@bbc.com (Chris Faylor) writes:

>Btw, since I don't seem to have made myself sufficiently clear, I was
>not talking about removing environment variable support.  I was talking
>about changing CYGWIN_* environment variables to CYGWIN32=*.

I don't see any good reason to hard-code the `32'.

Using `CYGWIN32' won't look very good on say the 64-bit NT Alpha port.

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