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RE: Using nail on win32 (cygwin)
- From: Vince Hoffman <Vince dot Hoffman at uk dot circle dot com>
- To: "'Gunnar dot Ritter at pluto dot uni-freiburg dot de'" <Gunnar dot Ritter at pluto dot uni-freiburg dot de>, "'cygwin at cygwin dot com'" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 16:21:05 -0000
- Subject: RE: Using nail on win32 (cygwin)
While i can understand your views, i'm sorry that you feel that way. thanks
for the responce.
Vince
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gunnar Ritter [mailto:g-r@bigfoot.de]
> Sent: 17 January 2003 16:16
> To: Vince.Hoffman@uk.circle.com
> Subject: Re: Using nail on win32 (cygwin)
>
>
> Vince Hoffman <Vince.Hoffman@uk.circle.com> wrote:
>
> > however I also use it on a couple of win32 systems running
> under Cygwin (a
> > posix compatibility layer for win32) as there is no bsd
> mail on cygwin ,
> > however its tricky to compile on win32 as the name aux is
> reserved (just
> > creating a text file aux.c is not allowed) so it involves
> unpacking it on a
> > *nix box and renaming aux.c to something like aux1.c and
> doing a quick
> > search and replace on references to aux.x and aux.o.
>
> This is just laughable and another good reason not to use this
> 'platform'.
>
> > Would it be possible to
> > change the name of aux.c and aux.o to something more win32
> friendly ?
>
> No, I generally don't resolve Windows compatibility issues. See
> <http://www.fefe.de/nowindows/> for a good explanation why free
> software developers should not do this.
>
> I'm sorry for the inconvenience this might cause for you as an
> individual, but the social issue is more important for me in such
> cases and besides, if you have a problem with inconveniences, I'd
> advise you not to use Microsoft products at all.
>
> Gunnar
>
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