From: Julian Fitzell <julian-ml@...4.com>
Date: 2001-10-31T11:09:33+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:23900] Re: Ruby's use of cygwin and commercial  use!

Just in case you didn't know, Winzip will open *.tgz files.  Much easier solution than having cygwin installed, in my opinion.

Julian

On 31/10/2001 at 7:27 AM Albert L. Wagner wrote:

>Hi, Dave.  I will probably keep cygwin just to unpack *.tgz
>files. That won't cause a problem will it?  I know NOTHING about
>how Ruby runs on windows.
>
>
>Dave Thomas wrote:
>> 
>> OK - time to ask the question.
>> 
>> Should the InstallShield version switch to mingw? We'd lose fork and
>> some popen functionality, but we'd also lose the cygwin issues.
>> 
>> Let's decide.
>> 
>> Dave
>
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