RE: End of support for 9x

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor > Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 11:38 AM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: End of support for 9x > > On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 10:21:20AM -0400, J

Re: End of support for 9x

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 DePriest, Jason R. wrote: > I am dumb. > > What is Windows 93? FWIW, on Wikipedia, Windows 93 redirects to Windows NT 3.1. Yaakov -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.moz

Re: End of support for 9x

On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 8:34 AM, Terry Dabbs <> wrote: > > > It is a pity; I have applications utilizing cygwin on Windows 93 and 95. > This is not a situation where I 'insist on using unsupported software', > but where a vendor has written applications I must interface with that > were written for

Re: End of support for 9x

On Mon, 25 Aug 2008, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 05:55:18PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug 25 17:37, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug 25 10:15, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 03:56:04PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: It's fixed decided that we ke

Re: End of support for 9x

On Aug 25 13:34, Christopher Faylor wrote: > OTOH, if the 1.5.25 repository is truly static then I don't mind leaving > it on sourceware either. I just envision problems that will require > package updates and that means infrastructure to keep setup.ini > up-to-date. I'd rather just have that all

Re: End of support for 9x

On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 05:55:18PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Aug 25 17:37, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> On Aug 25 10:15, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> > On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 03:56:04PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> > >It's fixed decided that we keep the entire 1.5.25 based net distro >

Re: End of support for 9x

On Aug 25 17:37, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Aug 25 10:15, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 03:56:04PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > >It's fixed decided that we keep the entire 1.5.25 based net distro > > >around for those user who are still running Cygwin on Windows 9x o

Re: End of support for 9x

On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 10:21:20AM -0400, Jason Pyeron wrote: >We volunteer. Ok. Thanks. You will have to make a copy of the release directory as well as setup.exe and setup.ini. I'd suggest rsync for that. Unless you are set up to do this, I can set up a "cygwin-legacy" mailing list to discus

Re: End of support for 9x

On Aug 25 10:15, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 03:56:04PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On Aug 25 08:34, Terry Dabbs wrote: > >>It is a pity; I have applications utilizing cygwin on Windows 93 and > >>95. This is not a situation where I 'insist on using unsupported > >>so

RE: End of support for 9x

[EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor > Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 10:15 AM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: End of support for 9x > > On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 03:56:04PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On Aug 25 08:34, Terry Da

Re: End of support for 9x

On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 03:56:04PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Aug 25 08:34, Terry Dabbs wrote: >>It is a pity; I have applications utilizing cygwin on Windows 93 and >>95. This is not a situation where I 'insist on using unsupported >>software', but where a vendor has written applications

RE: End of support for 9x

That should do it. Thanks... Terry -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Corinna Vinschen Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 8:56 AM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: End of support for 9x On Aug 25 08:34, Terry Dabbs wrote: > > >

Re: End of support for 9x

On Aug 25 08:34, Terry Dabbs wrote: > > > It is a pity; I have applications utilizing cygwin on Windows 93 and 95. > This is not a situation where I 'insist on using unsupported software', > but where a vendor has written applications I must interface with that > were written for those platforms

RE: End of support for 9x

It is a pity; I have applications utilizing cygwin on Windows 93 and 95. This is not a situation where I 'insist on using unsupported software', but where a vendor has written applications I must interface with that were written for those platforms and they will not upgrade, for reasons of their

Re: End of support for 9x

- Original Message - From: "Barry Kelly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: End of support for 9x Windows 9x doesn't even work on most modern hardware any more, due to lack of widespread driver support. That's been my experience too. I've been developi

Re: End of support for 9x

Trans-Mit Support wrote: > Re:- > > Note that the official support for Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows Me > > will be discontinued with the > > > next major version (1.7.0) of Cygwin. > > Its bad enough having to use windows, but having to upgrade to XP or VISTA > is just out of the question

Re: End of support for 9x

- Original Message - From: "Trans-Mit Support" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: End of support for 9x Its bad enough having to use windows, but having to upgrade to XP or VISTA is just out of the question. I'm not surprised that you're having bad experiences with Windows if you insist on

Re: End of support for 9x

You're missing the best version of Windows that ever exist, Windows 2000. On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 2:10 AM, Trans-Mit Support <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Re:- >> >> Note that the official support for Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows Me >> will be discontinued with the > >> next major version (1