From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Computer magazine CHIP asks for permission to distribute "cygwin" on its cover-cd
Date: Tue, 04 May 2010 20:06:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100504200601.GA14387@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BE07503.50907@veritech.com>
On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 03:26:59PM -0400, Lee D. Rothstein wrote:
>On 5/4/2010 1:17 PM, Warren Young wrote:
>> On 5/4/2010 10:39 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>> On May 4 12:21, Andrew Schulman wrote:
>>>> oy
>>>
>>> -v?
>>
>> No, that does something different. You mean
>>
>> $ oy --vey
>>
>
>Deferring to Corinna's native language (?), as best I can (my apologies,
>in advance):
>
>Wie weh tut mein finger.
>Wie weh tut mein fuss.
>Wie weh tut mir alles!
>Wann, die 3PPs "schuss"!?
>
>;-)
>
>Having said that, I believe I first found out about Cygwin, years ago,
>from a CD. Before that I had been a user of MKS, and later Thompson
>Toolkits.
Was it the dearly lamented Cygwin CD that I fought tooth and nail to have
Cygnus release? That experience will be in my memoirs some day...
I was supposedly in charge of the project but I'd get email telling me
that a meeting had been held and everyone had decided not to include
"perl" in the distribution.
Good times...
cgf
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2010-05-04 17:18 ` Warren Young
2010-05-04 19:27 ` Lee D. Rothstein
2010-05-04 20:06 ` Christopher Faylor [this message]
2010-05-05 17:05 ` Lee D. Rothstein
2010-05-05 17:44 ` Christopher Faylor
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