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From:	Thorsten Kampe <thorsten AT thorstenkampe DOT de>
Subject:	Re: Hosts file
Date:	Tue, 25 Mar 2003 18:26:49 +0100
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* Martin Gainty (03-03-25 18:07 +0100)
> Where does cygwin look for hosts file ?

"Cygwin" doesn't care about "hosts". The applications are looking for 
it in /etc and it is symlinked to the Windows default file in 
%SYSTEMROOT%\system32\drivers\etc\.

Thorsten
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