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From:	Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
Date:	Fri, 31 Mar 2000 10:45:19 -0500
To:	GNUWin32 <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
Subject:	Re: dll-problems
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In-Reply-To:	<38E444E7.21103147@uniweb.se>; from jens@uniweb.se on Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 08:25:43AM +0200

On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 08:25:43AM +0200, Jens Yllman wrote:
> I don't know exactly how cygwin is linked to the .exe. But it is
>probably as I call it staticly. Which means that the system loads it for
		       ^^^^^^^^
>you on startup. And the system looks in the enviroment variable PATH. If
>it is not there then you can not start the program. I think WinNT also
>looks in the current directory and the /winnt/system32 even if not in
>the PATH.

This is a correct summation except that cygwin is loaded "dynamically" not
"staticly".

cgf

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