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Re: FAQ ALERT Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: vim-7.0.122-1
On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 02:43:45PM -0700, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote:
>On 10/11/06, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>Good point, Brian. If anything qualifies as a FAQ, this certainly does.
>>Joshua, would you be willing to write something up about the philosophy
>>of MS-DOS and Cygwin? Known gotchas would be a good thing to include,
>>even if they were only examples.
>
>This looks like possibly just a generalized rewrite of
>http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.using.accessing-drives
I don't see much there which talks about the fact that not every
program will understand Windows paths correctly.
I think I have to write up a Cygwin philosophy page, too at some point
(with Corinna's input, of course), which tries to make clear that
modifying linux programs to work better with Windowisms is not a primary
goal of Cygwin.
cgf
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