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Re: The need for cygwin


On 01/07/2010 03:04 PM, mike marchywka wrote:
As one who asks rhetorical questions myself, the point doesn't seem to have hit a lot of people does it? It isn't so much the work-with-windoze aspect as much as "why do you need a command line thing when you have a gui?" You really should just have a one-link answer that explains that.
Nonsense. There are a million answers to that question and one can as easily ask "Why have a gui when you can have a command line?" The answer is there a place for both. People coming to install Cygwin often have a need for a good command line, and all that that entails. You could also ask "If you have a GUI why VMWare a Linux box, etc.". You do know that there are things that a command line is better for than a GUI.
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