installing tar programs using cygwin

[Dave Korn]

On 09 April 2006 19:12, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 08:48:43AM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote:
>> Dave Korn wrote:
>> 
>>> On 09 April 2006 15:40, Max Bowsher wrote:
>>>> Cygwin is not Linux.
>>> 
>>>   :)  Does a passable imitation of it, though!
>> 
>> Well, it can muddle through if there's a karaoke machine but it doesn't
>> quite have all the lyrics memorized yet.
> 
> I could be wrong but I think I heard somewhere that it wasn't completely
> POSIX-compliant.
> 
> Or, wait, does that matter?

  Of course it matters!  Why won't you think of the chickens?

> One thing I have noticed is that hardly any actual linux programs run on
> Cygwin without first recompiling.  The speed improvement over Windows is
> nice, though.
> 
> cgf

  Yes, but what about the speed improvement over Windows?


    cheers,
      DaveK
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