From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9228 invoked by alias); 10 May 2006 14:57:36 -0000 Received: (qmail 9220 invoked by uid 22791); 10 May 2006 14:57:36 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from ACCESS1.CIMS.NYU.EDU (HELO access1.cims.nyu.edu) (128.122.81.155) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Wed, 10 May 2006 14:57:33 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by access1.cims.nyu.edu (8.13.6+Sun/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k4AEvVgB012697 for ; Wed, 10 May 2006 10:57:31 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 14:57:00 -0000 From: Igor Peshansky Reply-To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List Subject: RE: Test: zip-2.31 and unzip-5.52 In-Reply-To: <003801c6743e$bbbe40c0$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> Message-ID: References: <003801c6743e$bbbe40c0$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-IsSubscribed: yes 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-q2/txt/msg00226.txt.bz2 On Wed, 10 May 2006, Dave Korn wrote: > On 10 May 2006 15:24, Igor Peshansky wrote: > > > On Wed, 10 May 2006, Dave Korn wrote: > > > >> On 10 May 2006 03:44, Charles Wilson wrote: > >> > >>> Notwithstanding the 'use posix instead of windows' ethos, we ARE, > >>> undeniably, running on windows. That's special. > >> > >> What, "special" as in "winning-an-argument-on-the-internet" special? ;) > >> > >>> Why does cygwin require patches, indeed... > >> > >> To patch up the holes where it burst open when a hippo sat on it? > > > > As long as we're afloat in the water and don't have to protect the > > internals from outside pressure, many people won't mind the holes... > > Isn't there a bit of a contradiction there? "Afloat in the water" but > with holes is more commonly referred to as "sinking", isn't it? Not if the holes are above the waterline. ;-) > And even if we weren't in the water at all, it's still worth patching > holes. It keeps the magic smoke in. Oh, is that what it was? And I always thought it was steam from the built-in steam engine... Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu | igor@watson.ibm.com ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac"