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Re: Can cygwin be loaded and it's utilities be used on Unix
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: The Cygwin-Talk Malingering List <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 19:20:48 -0400
- Subject: Re: Can cygwin be loaded and it's utilities be used on Unix
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On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 01:12:45AM +0200, Lasse wrote:
>Brian Dessent wrote:
>>Second of all, Cygwin is a windows DLL. There is absolutely no way to
>>run it under Linux or any other system that's not Windows, unless you
>>are talking about WINE or something.
>
>Hmmm... Has any tried it? :-)
Nope. Absolutely no one has tried it in any way whatsoever and no one
ever will. Any reports you hear of people trying it will be no more
than taunting lies.
cgf