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Re: Reading Term::ReadKey support for ActiveState Perl and Cygwin
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 16:46:35 -0400
- Subject: Re: Reading Term::ReadKey support for ActiveState Perl and Cygwin
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On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 01:47:07PM -0500, mwoehlke wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 11:20:09PM -0700, David Christensen wrote:
>>>I recently evaluated Microsoft Services for Unix (SFU), which aims to
>>>...
>>>...
>>>I hope to evaluate UWIN soon.
>>
>>Please don't discuss other, competing products here.
>
>Can we discuss how their inferiorities caused us to move (back) to
>Cygwin? ;-)
I don't see much point in doing so. Those kind of discussions always devolve
to "Huh. U/WIN doesn't even do named pipes!" "Oh, yes it does! You just have
to add the named pipes option in the registry!" "I tried that!" "What version
of U/WIN do you have?", etc.
cgf