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RE: Odd mount and path problem
- From: "John Morrison" <john dot r dot morrison at ntlworld dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 19:44:20 +0100
- Subject: RE: Odd mount and path problem
> From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf
>
> > On Behalf Of Robinow, David
> > Maybe, but see above.
> > cygwin, if I remember that far back, was originally intended as
> > a tool for
> > relatively experience unix folks to be able to run their stuff
> on Windows.
>
> I see Cygwin now as a way to get windows folks to try a *nix environment.
Sorry, that should have been in addition to stated reason above ;)
J.
> Thats certainly how I started; my (then) project leader decided that the
> next project should work on Windows, Linux and Solaris so we used cygwin
> and gcc for development. It's only really since that time that
> I've started
> using linux at home (currently Debian on my firewall and (installing as
> we speak) redhat on my test machine). I certainly couldn't have got as
> far as I have without being able to switch between the windows I is/was
> used too and the cygwin/linux view of my file system.
>
> *Most* advantagous.
>
> J.
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