Feedback needed on proposed cygwin feature

Chris Faylor cgf@bbc.com
Wed Dec 3 07:38:00 GMT 1997


In article < 199712021741.EAA13772@mundook.cs.mu.OZ.AU >,
Fergus Henderson  <fjh@cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
>cgf@bbc.com (Chris Faylor) writes:
>
>>Btw, since I don't seem to have made myself sufficiently clear, I was
>>not talking about removing environment variable support.  I was talking
>>about changing CYGWIN_* environment variables to CYGWIN32=*.
>
>I don't see any good reason to hard-code the `32'.
>
>Using `CYGWIN32' won't look very good on say the 64-bit NT Alpha port.

Good point.  Hmm.  How about:

CYGWIN32ORGREATER

?  :-)

Only kidding.  Now that I think of it, I can't remember why I added the
32 to begin with.  Probably just to distinguish it from the CYGWIN_*
style variables a little more.
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