Yes, Cygwin #define UNIX
and I have compiled some very complicated sourcecode from SGI
using -DUNIX flag.
my answer is yes to your questions.

BTW xprt from xfree86 (X11R6.x) works on Windows using Cygwin.

Suhaib

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alexander Mai [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 4:07 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: OS2, Cygwin : Xm-2.1/Print.c system dependencies
> 
> 
> On Tue, 30 Jan 2001 15:57:36 -0500, Suhaib Siddiqi wrote:
> 
> >
> >Cygwin is UNIXLIKE :-)
> >
> >I do not recall what patch someone requested due to broken headers.
> >In future refer them to my Cygwin/XFree86 mailing list at
> >http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/xfree
> >
> >Obviously without ours Cygwin/XFree86 LessTif will not compile.
> >Most of the time, I noticed, users complain about something which
> >turn out to be a problem at their end.
> >
> 
> see
> http://sourceforge.net/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=129431&grou
> p_id=8596
> 
> 
> WRT "UNIXLIKE":
> I'm not here to judge on the "unixlikeness" of your libc.
> 
> Does cygwin #define unix ??
> If it does we don't need to worry for now ...
> If not then we are talking about the 
> " fork()+pipe()=unix?"
> equation (which was a subject of related message from me
> on lesstif-commits) and that #define in Print.c
> 
> 
> ---
> Alexander Mai
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> 

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