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Re: Yet another GNU-Win32 website...
- To: fox at cat dot nyu dot edu, pete at horus dot cix dot co dot uk
- Subject: Re: Yet another GNU-Win32 website...
- From: N8TM at aol dot com
- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 00:10:30 EDT
- Cc: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
In a message dated 8/13/98 11:54:01 AM Pacific Daylight Time, fox@cat.nyu.edu
writes:
> > IMHO everyone /should/ have both /usr and /var (and /etc and
> > /usr/local for that matter). A standard FS layout compatible with
> > Unix/linux would be no bad thing...
>
> There seem to be two types of GNU-win32 users. Those who are trying
> to make a Windows system more Unixy, and those who are trying to make
> Unix software work under Windows. For the latter, the closer the
> file system stays to the windows standard the better,
Are we schizophrenic for wanting as much of both as we can get? What windows
standard says we shouldn't have the /usr and /bin directories needed to make
either of those wishes come true?
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