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Jan Wielemaker wrote:

>         * Added portability to Cygwin.  Using this version you can run
>         Prolog programs using the library(unix) on Windows, including
>         fork/1 and exec/1 calls.  Source only.  This change has fixed
>         many issues in the Makefiles to deal with non-ELF based systems.

This sounds good (e.g. for building servers using the socket stuff),
but what do binary-only Win32 users have to do before they can fork?
Can we get just the Cygwin library?  Are there licensing issues?

Paul Singleton

