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Re: Cygwin1.DLL soon to be Windows Vista only


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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