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

[Haroon Shafiq]

> ---------- 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?

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Haroon Shafiq
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