From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,a75122bb4b946b5c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Dennison Subject: Re: GNAT and Windows 95 Date: 1996/09/05 Message-ID: <322F8B28.2C5B@iag.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 178788837 references: <322C7208.53C@rtsnet.ru> <50je5k$2ka@cf01> <50md68$erg@news.nyu.edu> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: The Dennison Family mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.ada x-mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Win95; I) Date: 1996-09-05T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Richard Kenner wrote: > > Also keep in mind that the Cygnus Win32 stuff is in very early beta > release and still has lots of problems. For example, "rm -rf" on a > directory with 1,000 files prints an infinite loop of error messages > and hangs the machine when you try to stop it. Ouch! > Nevertheless, the package basically works and is quite nice. Not only > that, but they've just made a new release. I'd say its worth getting even if you don't want the compiler. The full distribution I got (20Meg compressed!) came with practically all of UNIX's commands. For those of us who need to run Win32 programs, but prefer the power and syntax of UNIX to DOS, it gives truly the best of both worlds. -- email - mailto:dennison@iag.net homepage - http://www.iag.net/~dennison