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\deflang1033\horzdoc{\*\fchars }{\*\lchars }\pard\qc\plain\f2\fs28\b MSYS - Minimal SYStem\r
\par \plain\f2\fs24\b\i Version 1.0.10\r
\par \plain\f4\fs20\cf1\ul http://www.mingw.org/msys.shtml\plain\f4\fs20\ul \r
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\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.\r
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\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.\r
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\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. \r
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\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.\r
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\par Enjoy,\r
\par Earnie\r
\par \plain\f4\fs20\cf1\ul Earnie@users.sf.net\plain\f5\fs24 \r
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