RE: Using nail on win32 (cygwin)

[Vince Hoffman <Vince dot Hoffman at uk dot circle dot com>]

sorry should have retitled this and maybe explained it a little more but had
too much wine at lunch :) 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vince Hoffman [mailto:Vince.Hoffman@uk.circle.com]
> Sent: 17 January 2003 16:21
> To: 'Gunnar.Ritter@pluto.uni-freiburg.de'; 'cygwin@cygwin.com'
> 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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