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Re: complete newbie Q

On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 04:52:05PM -0000, Dave Korn wrote:
>Dave Korn wrote:
>>porting effort.  (MinGW provides _some_ of the POSIX syscalls, but it's
>>a massively less-complete implementation than Cygwin.  MSYS provides
>>more,
>
>...  but it's not included in the cygwin mingw distribution.)

MSYS is just a (very) old version of cygwin with some hacks to translate
path names and a different way of dealing with the mount table.  So,
MSYS will never be included in the cygwin distribution.  It wouldn't
make any sense to do so.

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