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From: Bart <bc@freeuk.com>
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Subject: Re: Python (was Re: I did not inhale)
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2024 17:55:45 +0100
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On 22/08/2024 17:31, Scott Lurndal wrote:
> Bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
>> On 22/08/2024 16:28, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
> 
>>>
>>> For the TXR project I use a POSIX layer called Cygnal (see signature
>>> below). It gives a decent Windows port which preserves most of the
>>> functionality. All the POSIX stuff in the TXR Lisp standard library just
>>> works. The interactive listener ("REPL") with history and editing just
>>> works, right in your cmd.exe console.
>>>
>>
> 
>> (It's also not clear how well your product manages to use POSIX under
>> pure Windows, or whether you have to drag this other thing called 'CygWin'.
> 
> He specified in the paragraph to which you responded the posix
> interposer he used.


So this is only indirectly using POSIX under Windows.