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Re: New Installation
- To: earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com, Stephen Marley <Stephen dot Marley at memex dot com>, gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: New Installation
- From: Larry Hall <lhall at rfk dot com>
- Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 09:25:56 -0400
At 02:33 PM 10/19/98 -0700, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>---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.
>
Unless you like and want to use Cygwin symbolic links...
Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com
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