From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 127791 invoked by alias); 16 Feb 2016 07:57:18 -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 127774 invoked by uid 89); 16 Feb 2016 07:57:17 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=0.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=waterlan, H*f:sk:ea13ddc, msys, MSYS X-HELO: lb2-smtp-cloud3.xs4all.net Received: from lb2-smtp-cloud3.xs4all.net (HELO lb2-smtp-cloud3.xs4all.net) (194.109.24.26) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES128-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Tue, 16 Feb 2016 07:57:16 +0000 Received: from roundcube.xs4all.nl ([194.109.20.216]) by smtp-cloud3.xs4all.net with ESMTP id JvxC1s00Y4fjQrE01vxC9q; Tue, 16 Feb 2016 08:57:12 +0100 Received: from [192.198.151.45] by roundcube.xs4all.nl with HTTP (HTTP/1.1 POST); Tue, 16 Feb 2016 08:57:12 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 07:57:00 -0000 From: waterlan To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] dosbox 0.74-2 In-Reply-To: <56C26740.7000802@cygwin.com> References: <56C229DA.9060700@xs4all.nl> <56C2311D.404@cygwin.com> <56C26740.7000802@cygwin.com> Message-ID: X-Sender: waterlan@xs4all.nl (rzt1vlBovvfFKbM75eABh8EzKfu5nnsP) User-Agent: XS4ALL Webmail X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2016-02/txt/msg00239.txt.bz2 Yaakov Selkowitz schreef op 2016-02-16 01:03: > 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. I agree with you, but I can't see the advantage for DosBOX. I would also not run Wine or VirtualBox under Cygwin. It only adds slowness. Thanks for porting anyway. It demonstrates how mature Cygwin is. best regards, -- Erwin -- 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