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> From: "Chris  Lott" <Chris.Lott@gmail.com>
> Date: 24 Jul 2005 09:03:42 -0700
> 
> Is the "best" way to run emacs on Windows XP to use the Native XP build
> or the Cygwin?

I think the native build is better, as it relies less on non-standard
tools and libraries that could be incompatible.

> By "best" I mean: stable, able to run elisp code from
> emacs.sources, and able to effectively use external tools like grep,
> diff, etc... ?

Everything should work.  If you bump into a missing prfogram, like
Grep, download it from the GnuWin32 project.