cygwin: is it cygwin.dll, the files in cygwin/bin, or both?

Sun May 6 15:36:00 GMT 2001

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From: "Jerry Asher" <jerry@hollyjerry.org>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Monday, May 07, 2001 8:34 AM
Subject: cygwin: is it cygwin.dll, the files in cygwin/bin, or both?
> I am curious....
>> I gather that cygwin.dll is a dll that supplies the unix api's we love
to
> Windows.
>> I see that cygwin comes with locate, so I am going to try to set that
> up. Of course, much of the value of locate comes with the db that
gets
> updated "frequently". And yet, near as I can tell, there is no cron
> distributed with cygwin.
>> So wow come there is no cron utility supported with cygwin? Does that
> indicate something about what the cygwin project is that I don't quite
> understand? Or are there simpler reasons?

Very simple: cygwin is cygwin1.dll. The rest is a distribution of GNU
and other unix tools we all love. No-one has ported cron yet.
Rob
> Thanks,
>> Jerry
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