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From: Eliot Moss <moss@cs.umass.edu>
To: Jose Isaias Cabrera <jicman@outlook.com>,
	"cygwin@cygwin.com" <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: OSError: Unsupported platform 'CYGWIN_NT-10.0-19044'
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2023 07:52:30 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <fef591ec-ec6d-6ad4-5860-d8995a150146@cs.umass.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DB9P251MB00635C285D0D56BF2F2FB628DEA59@DB9P251MB0063.EURP251.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM>

On 2/22/2023 7:03 AM, Jose Isaias Cabrera via Cygwin wrote:
> 
> On February 21, 2023 2:52 AM, Csaba Raduly  expressed:
> 
>> Because you're not on Windows. You're on Cygwin, which acts as a POSIX
>> (Unix-like) system.
> 
> Wow! Thanks for that deep thought. :-) I knew that. :-) I have been using Cygwin since 1999 (sometimes more than others). I just thought that by now, Windows would have started playing nicer and had made enough changes to be friendlier to POSIX. Long story, but I need to use Cygwin for this. Thanks, though.

Sorry - hard to know whether one is dealing with a "newbie" or not.

EM

  reply	other threads:[~2023-02-21 20:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-02-20 18:04 Jose Isaias Cabrera
2023-02-20 18:57 ` Henry S. Thompson
2023-02-20 20:17   ` Jose Isaias Cabrera
2023-02-20 20:48     ` Henry S. Thompson
2023-02-20 21:41       ` Jose Isaias Cabrera
2023-02-20 23:13         ` Eliot Moss
2023-02-20 18:58 ` Marco Atzeri
2023-02-20 19:31   ` Jose Isaias Cabrera
2023-02-21  7:52     ` Csaba Raduly
2023-02-21 20:03       ` Jose Isaias Cabrera
2023-02-21 20:52         ` Eliot Moss [this message]
2023-02-22 15:56           ` Brian Inglis
2023-02-22 16:54 ` Brian Inglis
2023-02-22 18:06   ` Jose Isaias Cabrera

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