This is the mail archive of the
cygwin@sources.redhat.com
mailing list for the Cygwin project.
RE: New symlinks
- To: 'Robert A McDougall' <McDougall at agecon dot purdue dot edu>, Bernard Dautrevaux <Dautrevaux at microprocess dot com>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Subject: RE: New symlinks
- From: Bernard Dautrevaux <Dautrevaux at microprocess dot com>
- Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 11:57:59 +0100
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert A McDougall [mailto:McDougall@agecon.purdue.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 8:42 PM
> To: Bernard Dautrevaux; cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: RE: New symlinks
>
>
> On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, at 19:35:42 +0100, Bernard Dautrevaux mangled the
> formatting of a message sent by Larry Hall on Thursday, March
> 01, 2001
> at 6:51 PM; and wrote:
>
> > > At 12:28 PM 3/1/2001, Robert A McDougall wrote:
> > > >On Wed, 28 Feb 2001 at 18:38:11 -0500 Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > For what gain? So that users can create symlinks that
> > > could be used
> > > > > from Windows? I am wondering if the gain is worth the price.
> > > >
> > > >What he said!
> > > >
> >
> > He said he's not sure it's worth the trouble to try to
> allow native Windows
> > programs and Cygwin programs to work together nicely.
>
> Sorry, this is a stupid English idiom (or stale American joke
> line). It
> means, more or less, "I agree with what he said so well."
Oh... thanks; I've learned something :-)
>
> > > BTW, I think its great that Corinna's work has brought up
> > > this issue. The
> > > ability to use Windows shortcuts in Cygwin has been a
> > > recurring "request"
> > > and it's wonderful that she's taken some time to address it.
>
> What he said, too!
>
> > What I like with Corinna's solution is that it works both
> ways, something
> > that helps a lot integrating POSIX applications ported
> under cygwin and
> > existing Windows applications; after all THAT is the
> obective of cygwin
> > isn't it?
>
> It's up to the Cygnus/Red Hat guys to say what the objective
> of Cygwin
> is. But as the user guide ("http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-
> net/overview.html") notes, it is useful for more than one purpose.
>
Sorry, I should have said "ONE of the objectives of cygwin"
Regards,
Bernard
--------------------------------------------
Bernard Dautrevaux
Microprocess Ingenierie
97 bis, rue de Colombes
92400 COURBEVOIE
FRANCE
Tel: +33 (0) 1 47 68 80 80
Fax: +33 (0) 1 47 88 97 85
e-mail: dautrevaux@microprocess.com
b.dautrevaux@usa.net
--------------------------------------------
--
Want to unsubscribe from this list?
Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple