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Re: The GNU-Win32 Project
On Sat, 28 Feb 1998, Oori Hasson wrote:
> Since I wasn't aware of this, maybe some of you aren't as well.
>
> and I quote:
> ***
> The GNU-Win32 tools are Win32 ports of the
> popular GNU development tools for Windows
> NT and 95. They function through the use of
> the Cygwin32 library which provides a
> UNIX-like API that operates on top of the
> Win32 API.
We've been using it for a while. it's nice to speed up porting with it,
but it's not "unix emulation for windows" the way OpenNT may be able to do
(www.opennt.com). For instance it is still not cheap at all to open new
processes like it is in Unix (no point in porting Qmail to it, for
instance) and a few other things are slower. it's just nice to have the
back compat.