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Re: If it is true, Please Help me.
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 11:56:05AM -0400, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote:
>At 10:36 AM 4/4/2001, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 03:17:32PM -0700, eventualdeath wrote:
>> >technicaly I still do not know what is cygwin for, but my guess is that it
>> >is used so that programs running on unix or linux can run in windows if
>> >cygwin is installed.
>> >
>> >Is my guess right?
>>
>>Partly. Cygwin is really just a cover for a supersecret government
>>project. I could go into more detail but then... you know...
>
>
>Yes, I've always been amazed at how well the first FAQ "What is it?"
>(http://www.cygwin.com/faq/faq_1.html#SEC1) covers for the *true* nature
>of this project. If I read this FAQ entry, I would be lead to believe that
>Cygwin is a set of GNU tools that help me build Windows programs or port
>UNIX programs to Windows. Quite a clever deception!;-)
Thank you, Agent Hall, er, I mean Larry...
cgf
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