From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 75361 invoked by alias); 16 Feb 2016 00:03:16 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 75351 invoked by uid 89); 16 Feb 2016 00:03:16 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,SPF_HELO_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=H*M:cygwin, waterlan, H*f:sk:ea13ddc, H*i:sk:ea13ddc X-HELO: mx1.redhat.com Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-GCM-SHA384 encrypted) ESMTPS; Tue, 16 Feb 2016 00:03:15 +0000 Received: from int-mx11.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx11.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.24]) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 57C2D8CF76 for ; Tue, 16 Feb 2016 00:03:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.10.116.17] (ovpn-116-17.rdu2.redhat.com [10.10.116.17]) by int-mx11.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id u1G03Cvx012494 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 15 Feb 2016 19:03:14 -0500 Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] dosbox 0.74-2 To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <56C229DA.9060700@xs4all.nl> <56C2311D.404@cygwin.com> From: Yaakov Selkowitz Message-ID: <56C26740.7000802@cygwin.com> Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 00:03:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.5.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2016-02/txt/msg00238.txt.bz2 On 2016-02-15 17:46, waterlan wrote: > Yaakov Selkowitz schreef op 2016-02-15 21:12: >> On 2016-02-15 13:41, Erwin Waterlander wrote: >>> Why would anyone run DosBOX under Cygwin??? >> >> 64-bit Windows versions do not have any compatibility layer for DOS >> programs. > > I run DosBOX-win32 directly on 64 bit Windows. No need for a Cygwin > POSIX layer here. You could say the same of many packages. If you want to run MinGW or MSYS, go right ahead. If you want to use Cygwin as an environment in and of its own, then the more packages therein the better. -- Yaakov -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple