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Re: No postnews or other Usenet news utilities?
- From: Igor Peshansky <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
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- Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 12:20:12 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: No postnews or other Usenet news utilities?
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On Fri, 26 May 2006, mwoehlke wrote:
> Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
> > > From: mwoehlke
> > > ...Ruthlessly beating Windows with a hammer until it looks like POSIX.
> >
> > "Linux". Cygwin is "Linux" on Windows now. No, I'm not sure when or
> > why that changed either.
>
> But... but... CYNUX! Cygwin's NOT Linux? :-)
No, Cygwin isn't. But if there is behavior in Linux in some area where
POSIX is murky, Cygwin sides with Linux.
> I guess it does *look* like Linux, though, but Linux looks like POSIX.
> Since { a => b, b => c } <=> { a => c }, Cygwin looks like POSIX; QED.
> :-)
> http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Transitive.html
The implication doesn't go both ways -- only to the right.
> Feed the hippo.
People, we've got a convert!
> Love the hippo.
But this is not THAT kind of list.
> Run from the hippo.
Naturally...
Igor
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