FWIW, related to history: There is ("was" in the sense that it has been very stale for quite some time) a sister project to cygwin here:
http://www.geekgadgets.org I'm not aware of how this was related to cygwin, timewise - or otherwise. I know that the founder of this project was employed(?) at cygnus solutions sometime. Somewhere around '98 the project was very active. The following is a listing of a CD distribution from about then; F:\>dir Volume in drive F is GG-980523 Volume Serial Number is E66C-73DA Directory of F:\ 1998-05-23 17:28 <DIR> BASELINE 1998-05-23 17:28 <DIR> BIN 1998-05-23 16:41 1 525 BOOT.000 1998-05-23 16:41 258 342 BOOT.LHA 1998-05-23 17:05 2 353 CHANGES 1998-05-23 17:32 46 203 CRCLIST 1998-05-23 17:30 <DIR> DIFFS 1998-05-23 17:30 23 DIRLIST 1998-05-23 17:30 29 126 FILELIST 1998-05-23 17:13 3 553 MAKEFILE 1998-05-23 17:07 14 722 README 1998-05-23 17:09 24 139 README-CVS 1998-05-23 17:09 5 783 README-X-WINDOWS 1998-05-23 17:29 <DIR> SRC 1998-05-23 17:33 643 TRANS.TBL 11 File(s) 386 412 bytes 4 Dir(s) 0 bytes free /Hannu E K Nevalainen, B.Sc. EE - 59+16.37'N, 17+12.60'E ** on a mailing list; please keep replies on that particular list ** -- printf("LocalTime: UTC+%02d\n",(DST)? 2:1); -- --END OF MESSAGE-- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/