From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17727 invoked by alias); 14 Feb 2009 23:21:27 -0000 Received: (qmail 17719 invoked by uid 22791); 14 Feb 2009 23:21:27 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,RDNS_NONE,SPF_HELO_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from Unknown (HELO simon.codemeta.com) (199.125.75.14) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Sat, 14 Feb 2009 23:21:19 +0000 Received: by simon.codemeta.com (Postfix, from userid 115) id 62E8744AE3; Sat, 14 Feb 2009 18:21:11 -0500 (EST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by simon.codemeta.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 671FD44AE1 for ; Sat, 14 Feb 2009 18:21:10 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <499751D9.8050202@veritech.com> Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2009 23:21:00 -0000 From: "Lee D. Rothstein" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Windows/20081209) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The Vulgar and Unprofessional Cygwin-Talk List Subject: Hippo Picture Base64 Encode (server, base64) - PHP Classes Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.0.1 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-talk-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-talk-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Vulgar and Unprofessional Cygwin-Talk List X-SW-Source: 2009-q1/txt/msg00029.txt.bz2 Apparently, PHP has a mime class just for encoding pictures of hippos: http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/2465.html Does that mean for Cygwin 3.0, in gratitude, that all the code must be rewritten in PHP? ;-) That would make Cygwin like the "aura" of CygWine, to wit: * A portable implementation of a Windows adaptation layer to allow GNUish stuff to run on any platform that wants to dumm-down its capabilities to look like Windows while running GNUish stuff * Then it could truly be said that Cygwin was portably Hippoish, making big backends out of smaller ones. He said, recursiveLee