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Re: Cygwin Time Machine


On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Charles Wilson wrote:

> Actually, I think this is a neat idea.  I tried to do something like it
> for personal use about 18 months ago -- I wanted a one-time snapshot of
> the cygwin-1.3.x baseline just prior to the 1.5.x transition.
>
> But I waited too long (e.g. after packages which required 1.5.x had
> "polluted" the server), and couldn't untangle "what was old/what was
> new" well enough for my taste.  So I gave up.
>
> Your mechanism is much better.  I, too, hope you don't regret it. :-)

Thanks Chuck!  We'll see about the "regret" part :)  Feel free to use it.

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Peter A. Castro <doctor@fruitbat.org> or <Peter.Castro@oracle.com>
	"Cats are just autistic Dogs" -- Dr. Tony Attwood

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