Re: No postnews or other Usenet news utilities?

[Igor Peshansky <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu>]

On Fri, 26 May 2006, mwoehlke wrote:

> Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
> > > From: mwoehlke
> > > ...Ruthlessly beating Windows with a hammer until it looks like POSIX.
> >
> > "Linux".  Cygwin is "Linux" on Windows now.  No, I'm not sure when or
> > why that changed either.
>
> But... but... CYNUX! Cygwin's NOT Linux? :-)

No, Cygwin isn't.  But if there is behavior in Linux in some area where
POSIX is murky, Cygwin sides with Linux.

> I guess it does *look* like Linux, though, but Linux looks like POSIX.
> Since { a => b, b => c } <=> { a => c }, Cygwin looks like POSIX; QED.
> :-)
> http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Transitive.html

The implication doesn't go both ways -- only to the right.

> Feed the hippo.

People, we've got a convert!

> Love the hippo.

But this is not THAT kind of list.

> Run from the hippo.

Naturally...
	Igor
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