From: One Angry User <angry@lusers.org>
To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List <cygwin-talk@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: Test: zip-2.31 and unzip-5.52
Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 18:17:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.63.0605101416170.8628@access1.cims.nyu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44622964.3020500@bellsouth.net>
On a windy Wednesday, the 10th day of May, 2006, Bobby McNulty's computer deigned to emit the following stream of bytes:
> 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...
> > Igor
>
> You mean our float was attacked by another hippo?
> I was wondering where all these holes were coming from. :-)
Yes, those hippo floats are a nuisance. They should be banned from all
the amusement parks, especially Disney... Let them use real hippos.
OAU
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-10 18:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2006-05-10 11:56 ` Dave Korn
2006-05-10 14:24 ` Igor Peshansky
2006-05-10 14:33 ` Dave Korn
2006-05-10 14:57 ` Igor Peshansky
2006-05-10 17:56 ` Bobby McNulty
2006-05-10 18:17 ` One Angry User [this message]
2006-05-10 18:50 ` Bobby McNulty
2006-05-10 23:56 ` Gary R. Van Sickle
2006-05-11 0:32 ` One Angry User
2006-05-11 4:46 ` Gary R. Van Sickle
2006-05-11 9:11 ` Dave Korn
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