installing tar programs using cygwin

Christopher Faylor cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com
Sun Apr 9 18:39:00 GMT 2006


On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 07:22:30PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>On 09 April 2006 19:12, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> 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.
>
>  Yes, but what about the speed improvement over Windows?

Yeah, but having to run cygserver to get the speed improvement is a real
pain.  I have been trying to find a 'linserver' for my linux system which
will give me similar improvements but, so far, no luck.

cgf



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