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Re: cygwin-man

On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 07:38:48PM -0700, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote:
>I'll move around the BUGS stuff, I was going to add that to intro.3
>also.

Good.

>COPYRIGHT looks good?

Yes.

>I was already thinking that COMPATIBILITY seemed too wordy. Here's a 
>maybe better one:
>
>COMPATIBILITY
>       Cygwin  uses the GNU versions of many of the standard UNIX
>       command-line utilities (sed, awk, etc.), so the user envi-
>       ronment  is more similar to a Linux system than, for exam-
>       ple, Sun Solaris.
>
>       The default login  shell  for  Cygwin  is  bash,  the  GNU
>       "Bourne-Again  Shell",  but  other shells such as tcsh (an
>       improved csh) are also  available  and  can  be  installed
>       using Cygwin's setup.exe.  The Bourne-compatible shell ash
>       is used as /bin/sh.

Sounds good.  Thanks again for doing this.

cgf

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