FW: Gnome on Cygwin32

["Thuau, Joachim" <jthuau ventritex com>]

> i talked with Gary:
> 
> He did patch E (if you want the patch, send me private mail.. i'll send it
> to you attached..  :-)
> here is a site that you might be interested in :
> 
> http://www.tcserv.com/Eterm/Screenshots.html
> 
> Here is his answers (and my question, after...):
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> The port was done with the Cygnus gnuwin32 posix emulation layer
> (http://www.cygnus.com/gnu-win32), and you are seening the cygnus bash
> looking at NTFS through the posix layer which extrapolates as much posix
> style file information as it can before bash sees it.
> 
> I have ported just the client side libraries, based on Sergey Okhapkins
> X11R6.3 client port to win32 (http://www.lexa.ru/sos), which means
> you will need an Xserver to display on, either a UNIX box on the LAN, or
> a windows X server such as MetroX or eXceed.
> 
> "Thuau, Joachim" wrote:
> > 
> > gimme some news when you are done ..  (or if you want helper or tester
> ...
> > )
> > 
> > I have a question though ..   On the screenshot, i could see a listing
> of
> > the disk..  it looks like DOS/win95 files but there are the 'read/write
> > access' stuff for those files ..  how are you connected .. (are you in
> > Win95, with a exported X ? or is it a 'port' of the whole thing ???
> > 
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> Joachim 'Yolk' Thuau
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