[Info-vax] Free Pascal for VMS ?

[Paul Sture]

On 2018-05-16, Scott Dorsey <kludge at panix.com> wrote:
>=?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?=  <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>>
>>WSL is not in any way tied to Ubuntu. Ubuntu was just
>>the first userland package they supported.
>>
>>WSL is not targeting the ordinary Windows user. It is
>>targeting developers using Windows that need
>>tools only available on Linux or to build for
>>Linux or test on Linux.
>>
>>Most people that have tried it think it works
>>pretty well.
>
> WSL is not even the opposite of WINE, it is more like a replacement
> for Cygnus.
>
> Like Cygnus, it mostly works, except when it doesn't, and it employs a 
> mix of Windows and Unix syntax which can be very confusing when you need
> to remember whether you use a forward slash or a backslash in this path.....

s/Cygnus/Cygwin/%wh

Cygnus is a hex editor, Cygwin is the product you are thinking of.

<http://www.softcircuits.com/Products/Cygnus>

<https://cygwin.com/>

Cygwin is:

    - a large collection of GNU and Open Source tools which provide
      functionality similar to a Linux distribution on Windows.

    - a DLL (cygwin1.dll) which provides substantial POSIX API
      functionality.

Cygwin is not:


    - a way to run native Linux apps on Windows. You must rebuild your
      application from source if you want it to run on Windows.

    - a way to magically make native Windows apps aware of UNIX®
      functionality like signals, ptys, etc. Again, you need to build your
      apps from source if you want to take advantage of Cygwin
      functionality.




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