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 Message-ID: <007c01c0ff1d$ee63b460$6131800a@ebs.enron.net> From: "B. K. Oxley \(binkley\)" To: "Fred T. Hamster" , References: <993648794.12881.ezmlm@sources.redhat.com> <3B39F797.7000608@gruntose.com> Subject: Re: Cygwin: Open or Closed System? (was: two problems with cygwin's zip) Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 10:28:47 -0500 Organization: The Oxley Family MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 From: "Fred T. Hamster" > i for one cannot accept the rationale being promulgated that a system > for unix emulation on win32 should be ignorant of the native platform's > path specification, when calling into the environment from windows is > clearly a desirable capability. to me, that rationale seems to It would also be nice to see more said of other alternatives, such as UWIN, and how the compare with Cygwin. I'm sure they have good ideas we can reuse, just as Cygwin has good ideas they can reuse. --binkley -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/