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Re: cygwin-talk Digest 15 Jul 2005 06:33:26 -0000 Issue 147


On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 02:39:27PM +0500, Haroon Shafiq wrote:
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: Christopher Faylor < cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com>
> > To: The Cygwin-Talk Malingering List <cygwin-talk@cygwin.com>
> > Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 19:20:48 -0400
> > Subject: Re: Can cygwin be loaded and it's utilities be used on Unix 
> > 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
> > 
> >  
> An absolutely stupid idea. cygwin is supposed to be a *nix emulator, u
> want to run an emulator made to emulate an operating system on another
> operating system on the operating system whom it emulates through yet
> another emulator? where is this world going to?

This world is going to the hippos.


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