From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Starting XWin from a portable CD
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 02:03:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110314020348.GE16234@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0105D5C1E0353146B1B222348B0411A209DAA10089@NIHMLBX02.nih.gov>
On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 09:36:29PM -0400, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote:
>Christopher Faylor sent the following at Sunday, March 13, 2011 7:07 PM
>>>Fergus sent the following at Sunday, March 13, 2011 4:57 AM
>>>>... Oh woe woe woe. I've
>>>>lost count of the things that worked so easily on 1.5 and somehow
>>>>don't on 1.7, ...
>>>
>>>As I once wrote, 1.5 is the new B20! ;->
>>
>>On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 06:06:59PM -0400, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID)
>>[E] wrote:
>>
>>And I warned you about this heresy! Why won't you stop? You're upsetting
>>all of the children and farm animals.
>
>I stand corrected and humbled. B20 will never be surpassed. Use 1.5 only
>if B20 is unavailable. 1.7 exists only so we call tell people forced to
>use 1.5 that at least it's not 1.7, so what are they complaining about?
>
>And let's not forget that downloading a zip file (over dial-up) every time
>something is updated is clearly better than using setup.
Thanks for the clarification.
cgf
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2011-03-13 22:07 ` Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
2011-03-13 23:07 ` Christopher Faylor
2011-03-14 1:37 ` Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
2011-03-14 2:03 ` Christopher Faylor [this message]
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