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> From: "Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu>
> Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 11:13:59 -0500
> 
> > I think Someone(tm) should also go through all the *.el files, look
> > for code that's specific to system-type windows-nt, and see which ones
> > should also work for system-type cygwin.
> 
> I agree, but I think this is orthogonal: we can first install his patch
> and then try and slowly merge the applicable parts of the NT and the
> DOS code into the cygwin path.

I don't disagree, but I do think that without sorting out
DOZe-specific code like I suggested, the Cygwin port might have some
subtle bugs and misfeatures.  So it can only be viewed as work in
progress, not something we could in good faith offer to users at
large.