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From: Paul <nospam@needed.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Dimdows Decay Syndrome Continues
Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2025 16:12:49 -0500
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On Sat, 2/8/2025 3:41 PM, Frank Slootweg wrote:
> rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, 08 Feb 2025 11:24:29 -0500, Joel wrote:
>>
>>> It's just too funny, I'm running Forte Agent under Wine, you're running
>>> vim under Cygwin.  Couldn't be more equal and opposite.
>>
>> Cygwin isn't necessary for gVim under Windows. 
> 
>   Indeed it isn't, but - as I later mentioned - I use tin as my
> newsreader and I mentioned 'GNU', meaning all the GNU tools/commands/
> etc.. Granted, most of the latter can also be gotten as 'native' Windows
> executables, but probably not with a 'package manager' such as Cygwin
> has.
> 
>   If I was starting now/recently, I would probably use WSL (Windows
> Subsystem for Linux), but I already used similar stuff in the 80s, so
> Cygwin was the logical choice for Windows.
> 

And you don't have to keep an entire Cygwin installation
to make a Cygwin .exe item to work. As long as you
copy the DLLs it needs into a folder, it runs fine
in the portable sense. I run "disktype" in its own
folder, and the Cygwin tree is long gone.

   Paul