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From: Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Dimdows Decay Syndrome Continues
Date: 8 Feb 2025 20:41:26 GMT
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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.