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Re: setting up Cygwin for windows
- To: cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: setting up Cygwin for windows
- From: Chris Faylor <cgf at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 16:49:36 -0400
- References: <01b801bfe784$0e3de560$0201a8c0@mark>
- Reply-To: cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 09:54:54PM +0200, Frank Wagner wrote:
>is it possible to use cygwin and its toos without emulating a
>unix filesystem under windows?
Nope. Sorry. The whole purpose of cygwin is to emulate UNIX.
You can probably get away with using Windows paths for many of the tools
but I wouldn't claim that Windows paths (or other Windows paradigms) are
completely supported by every tool.
cgf
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