[m-dev.] for review: update README.MS-Windows for new Cygwin.

Fergus Henderson fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU
Mon Sep 4 19:52:18 AEDT 2000


On 04-Sep-2000, Tyson Dowd <trd at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> README.MS-Windows:
> 	Update the documentation that talks about Cygwin.
> 	The new Cygwin system has fixed most of the bugs that are
> 	discussed in this document, is available from a different site
> 	(Redhat now owns Cygnus), it creates /bin/sh.exe and /tmp for you,
> 	has non-beta version numbers, and seems to support //driveletter
> 	properly. 

The `//DRIVELETTER' notation is officially deprecated in Cygwin now,
in favour of `/cygdrive/DRIVELETTER'.  So the log message is a bit
misleading.  But the change itself looks fine.

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