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From: "Douglas Goodall" <douglas@goodallsolutions.com>
To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 21:48:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BAY16-F16A5543502C8C72BC8B8FADA4C0@phx.gbl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060816211747.GA28360@calimero.vinschen.de>

>
>On Aug 16 15:40, mwoehlke wrote:
> > Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > >I'm wondering
> > >why nobody complains that Linux doesn't understand drive letters.
> >
> > Well, the obvious answer is because Linux doesn't *have* drive letters. 
>;-)
>
>That's *the* major drawback of Linux.  When will Linux have drive
>letters finally?  As long as Linux doesn't have drive letters, it's
>totally unusable and the Linux people should not be surprised that
>nobody will ever use Linux!!!1!
>
>
>Corinna

What are you talking about. Either you like Unix or you don't. To the best 
of my knowledge,
FreeBSD doesn't have drive letters either. Its not the Unix way. Your 
position astounds me ;-)


  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-16 21:48 UTC|newest]

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2006-08-16 18:21           ` mwoehlke
2006-08-16 18:45             ` Christopher Faylor
2006-08-16 19:19               ` mwoehlke
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2006-08-16 20:41               ` mwoehlke
2006-08-16 20:46                 ` Christopher Faylor
2006-08-16 21:32                   ` mwoehlke
2006-08-16 21:37                     ` Christopher Faylor
2006-08-16 21:42                       ` mwoehlke
2006-08-16 21:17                 ` Corinna Vinschen
2006-08-16 21:48                   ` Douglas Goodall [this message]
2006-08-16 22:17                     ` Christopher Faylor
2006-08-16 22:28                       ` Douglas Goodall
2006-08-16 22:38                         ` Christopher Faylor
2006-08-17  7:12                           ` Corinna Vinschen
2006-08-17 14:34                             ` Christopher Faylor
2006-08-17 23:37                               ` George
2006-08-28  0:07                                 ` Joe Smith
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2006-08-17 15:17                       ` mwoehlke
2006-08-17 15:33                         ` Igor Peshansky
2006-08-17 16:12                           ` mwoehlke
2006-08-17 16:17                             ` Dave Korn
2006-08-17 16:38                               ` Igor Peshansky
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     [not found]           ` <20060815230423.GC6297@trixie.casa.cgf.cx>
2006-08-15 23:57             ` mwoehlke
2006-08-16  0:51               ` Christopher Faylor
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2006-08-15  1:18 ` Gary R. Van Sickle
2006-08-15  1:24   ` Dave Korn
2006-08-15  1:31     ` Gary R. Van Sickle
2006-08-15  2:36       ` Dave Korn
2006-08-15  2:50         ` Igor Peshansky
2006-08-15  4:05         ` Gary R. Van Sickle
2006-08-15  8:51           ` Dave Korn
2006-08-15 13:30             ` Igor Peshansky
2006-08-15  1:29   ` Christopher Faylor
2006-08-15  1:35     ` Gary R. Van Sickle
2006-08-15  2:41       ` Dave Korn
2006-08-15  4:15         ` Gary R. Van Sickle
2006-08-15  8:55           ` Dave Korn
2006-08-15 13:29           ` Igor Peshansky

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