On Thu, 07 Aug 2008 10:54:44 -0400, Warp wrote:

>   I really can't understand why precisely cygwin is used to port unix
> programs to Windows. Cygwin binaries rely on a bunch of dlls nobody has.

I've never had a problem running cygwin as long as you run the cygwin 
installer from cygwin.org.  That includes everything you need and even 
resolves the dependencies so you can select the tar & gzip executables 
only and it'll install what it needs.

What I don't understand is why people distribute an executable for cygwin 
without mentioning "you need cygwin to run this" and a link to the site.

Jim

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