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From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com>
To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List <cygwin-talk@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: Reading Term::ReadKey support for ActiveState Perl and Cygwin
Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 20:46:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060522204634.GG18999@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e4t0vb$4e2$2@sea.gmane.org>

On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 01:47:07PM -0500, mwoehlke wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 11:20:09PM -0700, David Christensen wrote:
>>>I recently evaluated Microsoft Services for Unix (SFU), which aims to
>>>...
>>>...
>>>I hope to evaluate UWIN soon.
>>
>>Please don't discuss other, competing products here.
>
>Can we discuss how their inferiorities caused us to move (back) to 
>Cygwin? ;-)

I don't see much point in doing so.  Those kind of discussions always devolve
to "Huh.  U/WIN doesn't even do named pipes!"  "Oh, yes it does!  You just have
to add the named pipes option in the registry!"  "I tried that!"  "What version
of U/WIN do you have?", etc.

cgf

      reply	other threads:[~2006-05-22 20:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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     [not found] ` <003201c67d67$c70d9f20$1e10a8c0@holgerdanske.local>
     [not found]   ` <20060522140033.GA17013@trixie.casa.cgf.cx>
2006-05-22 18:50     ` mwoehlke
2006-05-22 20:46       ` Christopher Faylor [this message]

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