[Info-vax] Free Pascal for VMS ?

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 5/16/2018 8:03 AM, Scott Dorsey 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.

I think WSL goes a lot deeper than Cygwin.

Cygwin is just a shell environment. Like GNV for VMS.

> 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.....

That is probably hard to avoid.

Arne