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On Sun, 29 Sep 2002, Juanma Barranquero wrote:

> > If you cannot work around this, perhaps we should require Bash on
> > Windows 9X?
> 
> Hmm, that would be tantamount to requiring cygwin/mingw tools. I'd
> rather not.

It's painful, but if that's the only reasonable way to do that on Windows 
9X, I don't see why we should drop the idea.  It's certainly better than 
to tell that bootstrap is impossible on Windows 9X.