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Date:	Wed, 14 Jan 2004 16:36:17 -0500
From:	Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: MS offers "Services For Unix" free of charge
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On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 04:26:03PM -0500, Robb, Sam wrote:
>> But beyond curiosity, there's not many reasons to install and
>> use both, at least concurrently.  Cygwin and SFU both address
>> the same needs and Cygwin covers a wider range of tools.  We'll
>> see what happens though.
>
>One thing that Cygwin does lack, and SFU has, is an NFS client :-/
>I know that alone will probably entice me into taking a look at
>SFU.

It would be rather interesting to add nfs to cygwin.  We could develop
filesystem "plug-ins" which could be generalized for stuff like NFS,
EXTFS, etc.

Didn't someone say they had a free month?  Perfect project.  :-)

cgf

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