CYGWIN, I believe, allows some native Linux programs to run on a Windows 
machine, as WINE allows some Windows programs to run on a Linux machine. By 
native I mean a simple copy of the binary executable file transferred from 
one machine to the other. There may well be other shells/emulators that 
permit this kind of functionality, but these are the ones I know of.

On Thursday 04 September 2008 05:41:25 Richard Erlacher wrote:
> Sadly, though you may know, you haven't shed light on WHY this SDCC stuff
> isn't promoted as a DOS program, rather than a Windows program.
>
> If it requires an add-on to Windows, WHY?  What does that do?
>
> Do you seen what I mean?  Why is there a CYGWIN?  ... and what's that other
> one MINGW ... or some such?  Why do those exist?
>
> regards,
>
> Richard Erlacher
<snip>

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