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Re: New Installation
- To: Stephen Marley <Stephen dot Marley at memex dot com>, gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: New Installation
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 14:33:07 -0700 (PDT)
- Reply-To: earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com
---Stephen Marley <Stephen.Marley@memex.com> wrote:
>
> On 17 October 1998, Michael Hirmke wrote:
> >
> > Get vim from
> >
ftp://ftp.franken.de/pub/win32/develop/gnuwin32/cygwin32/porters/Hirmke_Michael
>
> I don't get it. Why should one use a Cygwin32 version of Vim when
> perfectly acceptable Win32 native ports (gui and console) exist?
>
Simple, the mount table. The Cygwin32 would recognize a cygwin
mounted directory structure where the Win32 native port doesn't. This
is the _ONLY_ reason and IMHO not worth downloading the Cygwin version
if you have the native version already.
==
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