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RE: Press for Cygwin


 from http://www.arthappens.com/dictionary.htm

arg!, argh! - An expression of frustration.

Later, from cgf 
> So, it's more than just WinZip.  Bleah.
 Clearly, Chris has spelling problems.

blee - An interjection indicating something disgusting, bad, or 
icky.

bleh, bleugh - An interjection indicating something yucky or bad. 
(Less intense than "blee!")


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Schaap [mailto:cygwin@mscha.com]
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: Press for Cygwin
> At 22:49 30-8-2001, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > >>Nice article except ARGH! they mention using WinZip to 
> unpack the archives.
> > >
> > >You sure?
> > >I think you might feel differently when the support 
> requests come in to
> > >this mailing list from people who created an extremely 
> non-standard hacked
> > >Cygwin installation...  ;-(
> >
> >Which, coincidentially, was kinda my point.  Or does ARGH! 
> mean something 
> >different
> >where you come from?
> 
> Well, ARGH is not in the Dutch dictionary.  But then again, 
> it isn't in the 
> English dictionary either.  :-)
> 
> I misunderstood your ARGH - I assumed it was just directed 
> towards the use 
> of WinZip, which as we know can't deal with symlinks and 
> such.  In fact, 
> just about everything they say in the article deserves an 
> ARGH(*), I would 
> certainly not want to call it a "Nice article".  :-)

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