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From: "Dave Arnold" <avr_fan AT nettaxi DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
Subject: Re: setting up Cygwin for windows
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 21:45:32 -0700
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oops

I misread this question.  I thought you said does cygwin emulate
the unix filesystem. sorry.

/dave

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
To: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
Date: Thursday, July 06, 2000 1:50 PM
Subject: Re: setting up Cygwin for windows


>On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 09:54:54PM +0200, Frank Wagner wrote:
>>is it possible to use cygwin and its toos without emulating a
>>unix filesystem under windows?
>
>Nope.  Sorry.  The whole purpose of cygwin is to emulate UNIX.
>
>You can probably get away with using Windows paths for many of the tools
>but I wouldn't claim that Windows paths (or other Windows paradigms) are
>completely supported by every tool.
>
>cgf
>
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