From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20750 invoked by alias); 16 Aug 2006 22:28:31 -0000 Received: (qmail 20741 invoked by uid 22791); 16 Aug 2006 22:28:30 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from bay0-omc1-s9.bay0.hotmail.com (HELO bay0-omc1-s9.bay0.hotmail.com) (65.54.246.81) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Wed, 16 Aug 2006 22:28:27 +0000 Received: from hotmail.com ([65.54.186.52]) by bay0-omc1-s9.bay0.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Wed, 16 Aug 2006 15:28:25 -0700 Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Wed, 16 Aug 2006 15:28:25 -0700 Message-ID: Received: from 71.102.161.156 by by16fd.bay16.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Wed, 16 Aug 2006 22:28:23 GMT X-Sender: douglas@goodallsolutions.com In-Reply-To: <20060816221743.GA11720@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> 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 22:28:00 -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/msg00207.txt.bz2 > > > >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 ;-) > >I'm pretty sure that HP/UX understands drive letters, though. > >I have 30 years of experience in the computer industry so I am obviously >right about this. > >cgf This is where the IDD comes in I guess, Just because HP/UX may do it doesn't make it worth emulating. Thats my opinion, not based on 40 years of experience in the computer industry, but based on my experience since Unix Version 7. dwg