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Re: installing tar programs using cygwin
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: The Cygwin-Talk Malingering List <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2006 14:39:53 -0400
- Subject: Re: installing tar programs using cygwin
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On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 07:22:30PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>On 09 April 2006 19:12, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> One thing I have noticed is that hardly any actual linux programs run on
>> Cygwin without first recompiling. The speed improvement over Windows is
>> nice, though.
>
> Yes, but what about the speed improvement over Windows?
Yeah, but having to run cygserver to get the speed improvement is a real
pain. I have been trying to find a 'linserver' for my linux system which
will give me similar improvements but, so far, no luck.
cgf