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Re: Feedback needed on proposed cygwin feature
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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