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Re: MS offers "Services For Unix" free of charge
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 16:36:17 -0500
- Subject: Re: MS offers "Services For Unix" free of charge
- References: <3D848382FB72E249812901444C6BDB1D022F4784@exchange.timesys.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 04:26:03PM -0500, Robb, Sam wrote:
>> But beyond curiosity, there's not many reasons to install and
>> use both, at least concurrently. Cygwin and SFU both address
>> the same needs and Cygwin covers a wider range of tools. We'll
>> see what happens though.
>
>One thing that Cygwin does lack, and SFU has, is an NFS client :-/
>I know that alone will probably entice me into taking a look at
>SFU.
It would be rather interesting to add nfs to cygwin. We could develop
filesystem "plug-ins" which could be generalized for stuff like NFS,
EXTFS, etc.
Didn't someone say they had a free month? Perfect project. :-)
cgf
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