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Re: cygwin-man
- From: Joshua Daniel Franklin <joshuadfranklin at yahoo dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2002 19:38:48 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: cygwin-man
>> fact, Cygwin was once known as GNU/Win32.)
> I don't think there is any reason to mention this. It is really ancient
> history now.
I have BA in History. :)
>>As such, the user environment is more similar to a GNU/Linux system>
>>than, for example, Sun Solaris.
>I find the term GNU/Linux a real abomination.
I think the theory is that someone could put a Linux kernel with, say,
BSD versions of the CL tools. But, it's never happened, so it does seem like
a waste of four letters (as I write this on my Debian GNU/Linux laptop
connected to my Red Hat Linux firewall).
I'll move around the BUGS stuff, I was going to add that to intro.3
also. COPYRIGHT looks good?
I was already thinking that COMPATIBILITY seemed too wordy. Here's a
maybe better one:
COMPATIBILITY
Cygwin uses the GNU versions of many of the standard UNIX
command-line utilities (sed, awk, etc.), so the user envi-
ronment is more similar to a Linux system than, for exam-
ple, Sun Solaris.
The default login shell for Cygwin is bash, the GNU
"Bourne-Again Shell", but other shells such as tcsh (an
improved csh) are also available and can be installed
using Cygwin's setup.exe. The Bourne-compatible shell ash
is used as /bin/sh.
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