Can cygwin be loaded and it's utilities be used on Unix

[Dave Korn]

----Original Message----
>From: Danilo Turina
>Sent: 15 July 2005 07:37

> Lasse wrote:
>> Brian Dessent wrote:
>> 
>>> Second of all, Cygwin is a
>>> windows DLL.  There is absolutely no way to run it under Linux or any
>>> other system that's not Windows, unless you are talking about WINE or
>>> something.
>> 
>> 
>> Hmmm... Has any tried it? :-)
>> 
> 
> I would add some virtualization software in the mix (like WMWare) just
> to not make that simple (e.g. Windows 98 + WMWare + Linux + Wine +
> Cygwin). 



  Nah.  I reckon we should develop a windows emulation layer on top of
POSIX.  It could be called 'WinCyg'.  Then we could run cygwin on wincyg
easily.  It should be easy enough.  As a first step, who feels like adding
autoconf target support to cygwin?  When 


    cheers,
      DaveK
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