On Sun, 24 Jul 2005, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> > From: David Kastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 18:47:43 +0200
> > 
> > I think native build plus MSYS <URL:http://www.mingw.org/msys.shtml>
> > is a pretty good combination, but I have not actively tried it myself,
> > not being a Windows user.
>  
>  AFAIK, MSYS is not a full suite of ports, its purpose is to provide an
>  environment for running configure scripts.  Also, it has some
>  Cygwin-style maladies which could be a pain on Windows (for example,
>  Diff uses binary I/O, and thus compares files different when they only
>  differ in their end-of-line format, Newline vs CRLF).

same for the diff shipped with cygwin!

Klaus

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