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RE: installing tar programs using cygwin
- From: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- To: "'everybodys talking nobodys listening'" <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2006 19:22:30 +0100
- Subject: RE: installing tar programs using cygwin
- Reply-to: The Cygwin-Talk Malingering List <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
On 09 April 2006 19:12, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 08:48:43AM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote:
>> Dave Korn wrote:
>>
>>> On 09 April 2006 15:40, Max Bowsher wrote:
>>>> Cygwin is not Linux.
>>>
>>> :) Does a passable imitation of it, though!
>>
>> Well, it can muddle through if there's a karaoke machine but it doesn't
>> quite have all the lyrics memorized yet.
>
> I could be wrong but I think I heard somewhere that it wasn't completely
> POSIX-compliant.
>
> Or, wait, does that matter?
Of course it matters! Why won't you think of the chickens?
> 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.
>
> cgf
Yes, but what about the speed improvement over Windows?
cheers,
DaveK
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