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Re: Can cygwin be loaded and it's utilities be used on Unix
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: The Cygwin-Talk Malingering List <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 10:23:53 -0400
- Subject: Re: Can cygwin be loaded and it's utilities be used on Unix
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On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 01:21:15PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>----Original Message----
>>From: Christopher Faylor
>>Sent: 15 July 2005 00:21
>
>> On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 01:12:45AM +0200, Lasse wrote:
>>> Brian Dessent wrote:
>>>> Second of all, Cygwin is a windows DLL. There is absolutely no way to
>>>> run it under Linux or any other system that's not Windows, unless you
>>>> are talking about WINE or something.
>>>
>>> Hmmm... Has any tried it? :-)
>>
>>Nope. Absolutely no one has tried it in any way whatsoever and no one
>>ever will. Any reports you hear of people trying it will be no more
>>than taunting lies.
>
>I heard that Happy Fun Ball had tried it.
Really? Well then, uh, that's ok then. I know better than to question
Happy Fun Ball.
cgf