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RE: shells under mingw [Re: Cygwin32 Newbie (NBY)]
- To: "'Mumit Khan'" <khan at xraylith dot wisc dot edu>, gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- Subject: RE: shells under mingw [Re: Cygwin32 Newbie (NBY)]
- From: Jason Zions <jazz at opennt dot com>
- Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 13:05:56 -0800
> Being kind nor smart is going to make bash run under mingw32 w/out a
> severe rewrite and/or dumbing down. The only reasonable way to do it
> is to provide a POSIX emulation layer on top Win32 API. But wait!
> That's what cygwin32 (and OpenNT and UWIN and ...) does.
>
OpenNT is not an emulation layer on top of Win32; it provides a
protected mode NT subsystem that runs as a peer to Win32 and which
provides full POSIX semantics. For more explanation and propaganda, see
http://www.opennt.com.
Jason Zions, Softway Systems
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