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Date:	Wed, 26 Mar 2003 15:44:29 -0500 (EST)
From:	Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
Reply-To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
To:	Marcel Telka <marcel AT telka DOT sk>
cc:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: Determining the location of a Cygwin installation
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On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Marcel Telka wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 AT 03:35:47PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > P.S. Maybe we could factor out the code that detects a Cygwin installation
> > from setup into a library, and distribute a small cygdetect.exe that links
> > with it?
>
> ... and cygdetect.exe will be placed in /bin :-)

That wouldn't matter.  Like cygcheck.exe and setup.exe, it'll be a MinGW
application, independent of cygwin1.dll.  You'd be able to download it
from the web (preferably from cygwin.com), and running it would output the
Windows path to /bin.
	Igor
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