From:	perry AT piermont DOT com (Perry E. Metzger)
Subject:	Re: pathname conversion
24 Sep 1997 20:14:10 -0700 :
Message-ID:	<199709250250.WAA28684.cygnus.gnu-win32@jekyll.piermont.com>
References:	<3 DOT 0 DOT 3 DOT 32 DOT 19970924092155 DOT 018669d0 AT pop DOT pdx DOT informix DOT com>
Reply-To:	perry AT piermont DOT com
To:	Guy Gascoigne - Piggford <ggp AT informix DOT com>
Cc:	"John R. Dennis" <jdennis AT sharpeye DOT com>, gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

Guy Gascoigne - Piggford writes:
> I'd begun to get the idea that
> the Cygnus target wasn't to make the gnu tools compatible with NT, but to
> make NT look as much like unix as possible.

Exactly. Its basically a POSIX porting environment. It is *not* an NT
development environment per se, although I think its a mighty fine way
to get decent software running on NT.

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