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3 \deflang1033\horzdoc{\*\fchars }{\*\lchars }\pard\qc\plain\f2\fs28\b MSYS - Minimal SYStem
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4 \par \plain\f2\fs24\b\i Version 1.0.10
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5 \par \plain\f4\fs20\cf1\ul http://www.mingw.org/msys.shtml\plain\f4\fs20\ul
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7 \par Welcome to the world of MSYS and MinGW. Minimal SYStem is a minimal POSIX system used in the Win32 OS to accomplish configuration and making of packages.
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9 \par MSYS is a fork of Cygwin and is more friendly to the Win32 user. It offers only a user land environment for MinGW development. It converts posix paths before executing a "native" win32 program. This allows the users of the MinGW version of GCC to port and build packages in a GNU familiar way and removes the UNIX complexities that Cygwin adds.
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11 \par MSYS has it's own mailing list, \plain\f4\fs20\cf1\ul mailto:mingw-msys@lists.sf.net\plain\f5\fs24 , so if you have questions or experience problems ask on that list please. I have many plans for MSYS and MinGW and plan for a new release of not more than a six weeks span. Announcements of the new release will be done in both the news posts on the \plain\f4\fs20\cf1\ul http://www.mingw.org\plain\f5\fs24 web site and the mingw-msys mail list.
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13 \par More documentation can be found in the /doc/msys directory. Please be sure to read the documents in that directory. The /bin and /usr/bin directories are reserved for MSYS use. Do not install binaries that are not dependant on the msys-1.0.dll into those directories. If you do you will surely run into problems.
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17 \par \plain\f4\fs20\cf1\ul Earnie@users.sf.net\plain\f5\fs24
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