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From: Wolfgang Spraul <wspraul@q-ag.de>
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Subject: Re: Possibly OT: Can Cygwin and MS Services for Unix coexist peacefully?
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 17:57:10 +0200
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Igor -

> Just to make this somewhat on-topic: if you succeed, please perform some
> competitive analysis, and let this list know what, in your opinion, is
> Cygwin missing that MS SFU has?
>        Igor

My biggest issue with Cygwin (compared to SFU) right now is the lack of 
support for paths  longer than MAX_PATH characters. AFAIK there are patches, 
but they are not in the standard build, and only partially solve the problem.

I want to play with GNU arch a little bit, and the path limitation is a 
problem, although workarounds exist.
Regards,
Wolfgang


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