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Subject: RE: Cygwin Book?
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Igor Peshansky wrote on Thursday, October 18, 2007 5:37 PM::

> On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, Dave Korn wrote:
>=20
>>   Nope, that's IT: as far as I'm concerned, there's never going to
>> be any point writing a Cygwin book, because O'Reilly have already
>> allocated the hippo pictures to Java.=20
>>=20
>> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/jscook/colophon.html
>>=20
>>   What /were/ they thinking of?
>=20
> And both river and sea otters are taken... :-(
> 	Igor

I think pygmy hippos are still available.  They're cuter than the
big ones and don't make as big a splat when they sit on you.
I'm just not sure they're mean enough to qualify as a cygwin mascot.

Phil