Quote:
the cygwin distro creates a linux shell inside of windows


\begin{nitpick}

ok, it doesn't really create a linux shell. Cygwin is a bunch of unix tools ported to windows... many of which also happen to exist happily (and natively) under linux, solaris, HP/UX, AIX, BSD, etc.

\end{nitpick}

-- Gary F.
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