On Sun, Oct 17, 2004 at 10:45:10PM -0800, Ross Smith II wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: > > >> I'm sorry but, here again, we're talking about porting an AFAICT, >> non-standard package to cygwin when we're missing something as basic as >> "mailx" (or nail, or whatever). > >Given that argument, how would a new program ever become "standard"?
By existing in a linux distribution. Seems pretty obvious. >> Isn't there anyone out there who can perform the dead-simple act of >packaging >> up nail for this purprose? > >It can't be that simple to port, or someone would have already done it. >Christ, I can't even untar nail to my Cygwin box as it contains a file named >aux.c. Given that attitude, I think I will just give up working on Cygwin entirely. It's just too hard. cgf