[Info-vax] This is for the folks who get comp.os.vms via the Info-VAX mailing list
Simon Clubley
clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP
Tue Dec 12 08:18:44 EST 2023
On 2023-12-11, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
> On 12/11/2023 9:16 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>
>> With Cygwin, slrn believes it is running under a form of Unix and, having
>> had a quick look, it does appear there are prebuilt versions of slrn in
>> the Cygwin repository:
>>
>> https://cygwin.com/packages/summary/slrn.html
>>
>> I have no idea if there are functionality limitations when running slrn
>> under Cygwin, but it might be worth exploring for people interested in
>> an option other than Thunderbird.
>
> Just to be clear about what Cygwin provides.
>
> Cygwin build tools, compilers, header files, libraries etc.
> allow one to build *nix source code. The result is Windows
> EXE/DLL that run on any Windows as long as the the Cygwin
> runtime DLL is present.
>
> Nice tool. I have used it for more than 20 years.
>
> But it is not emulating Linux like WSL1 does (or Wine
> does in the reverse direction).
>
Yes. Like I said above, it's emulating the various Unix APIs instead and
providing the kinds of tools you would see under Linux. For anyone confused
about the difference, look at the output of "uname -o" both under Cygwin
and under Linux. Under Cygwin, "Cygwin" is output as the OS, not "Linux".
Think of it as a seriously beefed-up version of POSIX that even allows
you to run X under Windows.
Simon.
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