Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 11:20:35 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: "Andersen, Jan Bruun" Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Whow! What a beatiful experience!! Message-ID: <20010302112035.C9319@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: "Andersen, Jan Bruun" , cygwin@cygwin.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.11i In-Reply-To: ; from janbruun.andersen@eds.com on Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 03:12:49PM -0000 You're welcome. Thank you for the unqualified praise. It's nice to see this amongst the usual: "I love Cygwin. It's really great. If only it..." cgf On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 03:12:49PM -0000, Andersen, Jan Bruun wrote: >Hi everyone, > >A BIG Thank You to everyone who has been involved in the creation of the >CygWin software. > >For a project, I wanted to create some small utilities to convert incoming >data file, but I only have this Win2K laptop :( As an old UNIX programmer, I >didn't feel like having to learn a Windows IDE, so I was planning to >repartitioning my NTFS disk to make room for a Linux distribution. > >But last night, I started to think "Maybe I can just install a Windows port >of gcc, lex and yacc instead?". This morning, I searched for >gcc+windows+binaries - and viola! CygWin came up. > >10 minutes later, thanks to that beautiful litte program called setup.exe, I >had en environment that looked just as I remembered UNIX :-) > >THANKS!!! > >-- >Jan Bruun Andersen >Information Specialist, B.Sc. >Solution Centre Denmark > >EDS Sverige AB, Solna Strandväg 96, SE-171 85 Solna, Sweden >(http://www.eds.se/) >"A More Productive Way of Working." > > >-- >Want to unsubscribe from this list? >Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple -- cgf@cygnus.com Red Hat, Inc. http://sources.redhat.com/ http://www.redhat.com/ -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple