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RE: Test: zip-2.31 and unzip-5.52
- From: Igor Peshansky <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 10:23:58 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: RE: Test: zip-2.31 and unzip-5.52
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On Wed, 10 May 2006, Dave Korn wrote:
> On 10 May 2006 03:44, Charles Wilson wrote:
>
> > Notwithstanding the 'use posix instead of windows' ethos, we ARE,
> > undeniably, running on windows. That's special.
>
> What, "special" as in "winning-an-argument-on-the-internet" special? ;)
>
> > Why does cygwin require patches, indeed...
>
> To patch up the holes where it burst open when a hippo sat on it?
As long as we're afloat in the water and don't have to protect the
internals from outside pressure, many people won't mind the holes...
Igor
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