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Re: ksh93? -- also u/win question


On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 09:56:43PM -0600, Matthew Smith wrote:
>I'm still working on it.  I sort of lost interest though, now that zsh runs
>so smoothly under cygwin (no more status access violations, yay!).

Was this due to cygwin or zsh changes, or both?

Do you want to make a zsh available on cygwin.com?  I'll set you up with
an account so that you can upload copies, there, if so.

>    The slashdot piece was interesting, but I had to disagree with a number
>of his points.  Especially the bits about uwin versus cygwin.  Uwin has lots
>of clever ideas, but it's executed very poorly.  It's been extremely
>unstable in my experience.  I downloaded version 2.25 of it around a week
>ago to see if it had improved, and promptly trashed it.  Cygwin all the way,
>baby.

I'm glad to hear that.

Can you give an example of some of the clever ideas in uwin?  I know that
they have some sort of setuid daemon or something like that but it has been
a while since I really investigated U/WIN.

Since I have to come up with a roadmap for Cygwin at some point, it might be
nice to know where another product has gone so that I could shamelessly steal
some ideas.

I thought that it was interesting that David Korn said that U/WIN may soon be
open sourced.

cgf

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