Re: Dimdows Decay Syndrome Continues

On Sat, 2/8/2025 3:41 PM, Frank Slootweg wrote:

rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On Sat, 08 Feb 2025 11:24:29 -0500, Joel wrote:
>

It's just too funny, I'm running Forte Agent under Wine, you're running
vim under Cygwin.  Couldn't be more equal and opposite.

>
Cygwin isn't necessary for gVim under Windows.

 
  Indeed it isn't, but - as I later mentioned - I use tin as my
newsreader and I mentioned 'GNU', meaning all the GNU tools/commands/
etc.. Granted, most of the latter can also be gotten as 'native' Windows
executables, but probably not with a 'package manager' such as Cygwin
has.
 
  If I was starting now/recently, I would probably use WSL (Windows
Subsystem for Linux), but I already used similar stuff in the 80s, so
Cygwin was the logical choice for Windows.
 

And you don't have to keep an entire Cygwin installation
to make a Cygwin .exe item to work. As long as you
copy the DLLs it needs into a folder, it runs fine
in the portable sense. I run "disktype" in its own
folder, and the Cygwin tree is long gone.

   Paul