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On 12 Sep 2002 10:29:43 +0200 Klaus Berndl wrote:

Klaus> On 11 Sep 2002, Jochen Küpper wrote:

>> Actually Emacs is (3 packages) in the standard Cygwin install nowadays...

Klaus> Oooops... AFAIK there is no official release port of GNU Emacs
Klaus> to Cygwin... Is this not true anymore?? Is there now an
Klaus> official port of GNU Emacs 21.X to cygwin (downloadable
Klaus> binaries build with cygwin and installable by the cygwin
Klaus> setup)?

Well, what's "offocial"? :)) Emacs is in the standard cygwin package
hirarchy nowadays (but yes, only recently added).

It needs some patching and apparently the company who's employee fixed
it for cygwin is somewhat slow to sign the copyright assignments to
FSF... (Which is not so strange if it's their first time:)

Greetings,
Jochen
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