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Re: Cygwin1.DLL soon to be Windows Vista only
- From: Igor Peshansky <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2007 15:58:48 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: Cygwin1.DLL soon to be Windows Vista only
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On Sun, 1 Apr 2007, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 11:41:52PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote:
> >Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >> 4) A --mascot command line option will be automatically understood by
> >> any program which uses the Cygwin DLL. It will cause a picture of a
> >> hippo to be displayed. (--nomascot will defeat this option)
> >
> >He is also quite helpful... <http://dessent.net/tmp/cygclippy.png>
>
> Don't want to break character here so I have to reply to this list.
>
> This was one of the funniest things I've seen in a while.
Same here. I loved it.
> Has this hippo been sent here before? Maybe it *should* be our
> mascot.
How about putting it on the Cygwin web page as an official screenshot,
announcing the availability of Hippy, the Cygwin hippo? There are still
some hours left of today... :-)
Igor
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