[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package `inetutils' in latest

[Earnie Boyd]

--- Ken Coleman <kcoleman@yahoo.com> wrote:
> If the daemons are only useful in NT/W2K, then do they
> really belong in the Cygwin distribution proper? 
> Those of us on 9X are going to get files that are
> useless to us when we do a net install, and AFAIK
> there is currently nothing in the Cygwin distribution
> that isn't useful to us.
> 

Well the package does contain the client side utilities that would be useful in
the win9x environment.

> By the way, is it actually so difficult to fall back
> on /etc/passwd authentication if you're on 9X?  The
> cygutils version works perfectly for this.
> 

Send your diff file to cygwin-apps@sourceware.cygnus.com for consideration.

Cheers,

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