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Date:	Wed, 7 Jun 2000 08:38:28 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Rick Rankin <rick_rankin AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject:	Re: Please try the 6/1 Cygwin DLL snapshot -- this may be the one
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Just thought I'd offer some feedback. I've been using the 6/1 snapshot for a
couple of days now with no problems. All of my mounts are textmode and I've
seen none of the problems that appeared in the 1.1.1 release.

Rick
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--- Chris Faylor <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com> wrote:
> The 2000-Jun-01 snapshot should fix any lingering problems with text
> mode reads or writes being performed in binary.  It is available here:
> 
> ftp://sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/cygwin/snapshots/cygwin1-20000601.dll.gz
> 
> This file should be copied to your /bin directory.  There should also
> be a cygwin1.dll in this directory.  If there isn't, you're in the wrong
> directory.
> 
> Once it's downloaded please:
> 
>     1) Terminate all running cygwin applications
> 
>     2) In the command shell, cd to the MS-DOS equivalent of your /bin
>        directory, e.g.,
>         d:
>         cd cygwin\bin
> 
>     3) gzip -d cygwin1-20000601.dll.gz
> 
>     4) copy cygwin1.dll cygwin1.dll.safe
> 
>     5) copy cygwin1-20000601.dll cygwin1.dll
> 
>     6) Check any failing applications for correct operation.
> 
> Note that the setup utility mounts your root in "binmode" by default.
> This DLL does not change that.  It only fixes the problems with reading
> files in text mode that were most clearly illustrated by make and sed.
> 
> It should also fix a couple of other problems reported here in the last
> week.  Check the ChangeLog for more info:
> 
>
http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/snapshots/winsup-src-20000601.tar.gz/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
> 
> If there is not too much grumbling about this snapshot, it will probably
> become the next net release of the Cygwin DLL.
> 
> If you do try out this DLL, I would appreciate hearing success or failure
> reports here in the cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com mailing list.  Do not
> send them to me personally.
> 
> Thanks,
> cgf
> 
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