From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29336 invoked by alias); 16 Aug 2006 21:48:01 -0000 Received: (qmail 29324 invoked by uid 22791); 16 Aug 2006 21:48:00 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from bay0-omc3-s38.bay0.hotmail.com (HELO bay0-omc3-s38.bay0.hotmail.com) (65.54.246.238) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Wed, 16 Aug 2006 21:47:56 +0000 Received: from hotmail.com ([65.54.186.66]) by bay0-omc3-s38.bay0.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Wed, 16 Aug 2006 14:47:55 -0700 Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Wed, 16 Aug 2006 14:47:54 -0700 Message-ID: Received: from 71.102.161.156 by by16fd.bay16.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Wed, 16 Aug 2006 21:47:50 GMT X-Sender: douglas@goodallsolutions.com In-Reply-To: <20060816211747.GA28360@calimero.vinschen.de> From: "Douglas Goodall" To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com Bcc: Subject: Re: change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81 Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 21:48:00 -0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Mailing-List: contact cygwin-talk-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-talk-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List X-SW-Source: 2006-q3/txt/msg00204.txt.bz2 > >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 ;-)