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Thu Jan 15 05:31:00 GMT 2004

Chris January wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 04:26:03PM -0500, Robb, Sam wrote:
>>>>>> But beyond curiosity, there's not many reasons to install and use 
>>>> both, at least concurrently. Cygwin and SFU both address the same 
>>>> needs and Cygwin covers a wider range of tools. We'll
>>>> see what happens though.
>>>>>> One thing that Cygwin does lack, and SFU has, is an NFS client :-/ I 
>>> know that alone will probably entice me into taking a look at SFU.
>>>> It would be rather interesting to add nfs to cygwin. We could develop 
>> filesystem "plug-ins" which could be generalized for stuff like NFS, 
>> EXTFS, etc.
>>>> Didn't someone say they had a free month? Perfect project. :-)
>> Isn't the SFU NFS client an installable file system, i.e. you can use 
> it anywhere in Windows, not just with the SFU stuff?

Last I checked SFU's NFS was just DiskAccess and the POSIX was merely a 
30-day trial of MKS. Has that changed (aside from possibly the MKS 
portion being a non time bombed trial -> a full copy)?
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