From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mailsrv.cs.umass.edu (mailsrv.cs.umass.edu [128.119.240.136]) by sourceware.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 979393858D35 for ; Tue, 21 Feb 2023 20:52:34 +0000 (GMT) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.4.2 sourceware.org 979393858D35 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=cs.umass.edu Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=cs.umass.edu Received: from [10.28.36.67] (unknown [150.203.68.54]) by mailsrv.cs.umass.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 2632A401CBF3; Tue, 21 Feb 2023 15:52:32 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2023 07:52:30 +1100 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.7.2 Reply-To: moss@cs.umass.edu Subject: Re: OSError: Unsupported platform 'CYGWIN_NT-10.0-19044' Content-Language: en-US To: Jose Isaias Cabrera , "cygwin@cygwin.com" References: From: Eliot Moss In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,JMQ_SPF_NEUTRAL,KAM_DMARC_STATUS,NICE_REPLY_A,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,TXREP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.6 (2021-04-09) on server2.sourceware.org List-Id: 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