On Wed, 18 Nov 2020 at 13:50, Kristian Ivarsson via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote: > >
> The only purpose CYGWIN have is to make/build posix-applications runnable on > Windows and applications usually have user defined input, such as paths etc, > and on Windows that input is usually Windows-native-paths unless you educate > operators/users to enter paths with /cygdrive/... <rant> I use CYGWIN to work around a stupid design decision made by a small time OS developer more than 40 years ago, and inherited by an OS that did not even have directories in its first release. </rant> Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
