On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 02:25:20PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I wonder if "outsourcing" of both fortune and strfile executables is
>possible, so these programs might be run independently on a Win32
>system lacking the regular Cygwin environment.  Is it feasible somehow
>to supply just the indispensable Cygwin library (or libraries) to
>Windows, so fortune and strfile (needed for generating fortune's dat
>files) can be run via cmd.exe?  Fortune is a unique, lovely little
>program, I'd like to use on other machines as well - without Cygwin.
>Any opinions?

I have one:  Find another mailing list if you want to discuss ways of
not using cygwin.  This is a mailing list devoted to actually *using*
cygwin.

Maybe the MinGW project is what you want; http://www.mingw.org/

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