[drupal-devel] Permissions aren't transparent

[Karoly Negyesi]

> You might want to consider installing cygwin:
>   http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/
> It creates a sort of linux emulation layer in windows and allows native
> linux apps to run in windows, such as diff and patch.

Bad advice. Even the Drupal Handbook contains this link: 
http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/UnxUtils.zip

Native compilation of many Unix utils, incl. diff and patch. No need to 
bother with Cygwin.