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Re: Possibly OT: Can Cygwin and MS Services for Unix coexist peacefully?

From: Wolfgang Spraul <wspraul at q-ag dot de>
To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Cc: pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 17:57:10 +0200
Subject: Re: Possibly OT: Can Cygwin and MS Services for Unix coexist peacefully?
Organization: Q AG

Igor -

> Just to make this somewhat on-topic: if you succeed, please perform some
> competitive analysis, and let this list know what, in your opinion, is
> Cygwin missing that MS SFU has?
>        Igor

My biggest issue with Cygwin (compared to SFU) right now is the lack of 
support for paths  longer than MAX_PATH characters. AFAIK there are patches, 
but they are not in the standard build, and only partially solve the problem.

I want to play with GNU arch a little bit, and the path limitation is a 
problem, although workarounds exist.
Regards,
Wolfgang



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