Using nail on win32 (cygwin)

Fri Jan 17 16:41:00 GMT 2003

While i can understand your views, i'm sorry that you feel that way. thanks
for the responce.
Vince
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gunnar Ritter [mailto:g-r@bigfoot.de]
> Sent: 17 January 2003 16:16
> To: Vince.Hoffman@uk.circle.com
> Subject: Re: Using nail on win32 (cygwin)
>>> Vince Hoffman <Vince.Hoffman@uk.circle.com> wrote:
>> > however I also use it on a couple of win32 systems running 
> under Cygwin (a
> > posix compatibility layer for win32) as there is no bsd 
> mail on cygwin ,
> > however its tricky to compile on win32 as the name aux is 
> reserved (just
> > creating a text file aux.c is not allowed) so it involves 
> unpacking it on a
> > *nix box and renaming aux.c to something like aux1.c and 
> doing a quick
> > search and replace on references to aux.x and aux.o.
>> This is just laughable and another good reason not to use this
> 'platform'.
>> > Would it be possible to
> > change the name of aux.c and aux.o to something more win32 
> friendly ?
>> No, I generally don't resolve Windows compatibility issues. See
> <http://www.fefe.de/nowindows/> for a good explanation why free
> software developers should not do this.
>> I'm sorry for the inconvenience this might cause for you as an
> individual, but the social issue is more important for me in such
> cases and besides, if you have a problem with inconveniences, I'd
> advise you not to use Microsoft products at all.
>> 	Gunnar
>
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