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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package `inetutils' in latest
- To: Ken Coleman <kcoleman at yahoo dot com>, cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package `inetutils' in latest
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 12:59:09 -0700 (PDT)
- Reply-To: earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com
--- Ken Coleman <kcoleman@yahoo.com> wrote:
> If the daemons are only useful in NT/W2K, then do they
> really belong in the Cygwin distribution proper?
> Those of us on 9X are going to get files that are
> useless to us when we do a net install, and AFAIK
> there is currently nothing in the Cygwin distribution
> that isn't useful to us.
>
Well the package does contain the client side utilities that would be useful in
the win9x environment.
> By the way, is it actually so difficult to fall back
> on /etc/passwd authentication if you're on 9X? The
> cygutils version works perfectly for this.
>
Send your diff file to cygwin-apps@sourceware.cygnus.com for consideration.
Cheers,
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Earnie Boyd: <mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
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