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Re: Size?



> > Now, if only it was possible to get thumb tools working in Windows... or
>
>Actually there's a good chance that most of your problems are specifically
>due to the fact it's Windows 98 specifically. We've often had problems with
>that and don't support it.

This laptop came bundled with NTWS4/Win2k user-select OS, but of course I 
had to format that off. Seriously, meant as a constructive piece of user 
feedback, I think it would be wonderful if RH could look at the issue(s) 
surrounding Windows 9x. I guarantee that I am not the only embedded 
developer facing this type of issue.

I'm actually a little puzzled by RH's choice to go down the 
*NIX-emulation-layer route. It seems to me that it would have been much 
easier to build a set of tools that run as native Win32 applications. This 
would avoid a host of weird line termination issues, having to run inside a 
special environment, etc.

I mean, compilers are pretty much the easiest software in the world to 
port... I'd be curious to know the thinking behind wrapping it all in cygwin.

=== Lewin A.R.W. Edwards (Embedded Engineer)
Work: http://www.digi-frame.com/
Personal: http://www.zws.com/ and http://www.larwe.com/

"Und setzet ihr nicht das Leben ein,
Nie wird euch das Leben gewonnen sein."


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