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Re: setting up Cygwin for windows


On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 09:54:54PM +0200, Frank Wagner wrote:
>is it possible to use cygwin and its toos without emulating a
>unix filesystem under windows?

Nope.  Sorry.  The whole purpose of cygwin is to emulate UNIX.

You can probably get away with using Windows paths for many of the tools
but I wouldn't claim that Windows paths (or other Windows paradigms) are
completely supported by every tool.

cgf

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